Category: Bread Recipes, Breakfast Recipes, Dinner, Kids Meals, Light Dinners, Lunch, Meal Times, Recipes, Summer Recipes, Winter Recipes
Cuisine: African, European, Italian/USA, South African
Cooking Method: Oven
Yields:
2 Servings
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 2 Hr
Cook Time:
30 Mins
Total Time:
2 Hr 30 Mins
A perfect homemade Bread.
Ingredients
Adjust Servings
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INGREDIENTS:
Instructions
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METHOD:
- 1. In a very large bowl stir together warm Water and Yeast. Allow to rise and bubble for 2 minutes then whisk in Sea Salt and begin adding Flour 1 cup at a time stirring with a wooden spoon to incorporate. Though you don’t need to knead this bread you can use your hands to incorporate all the Flour if it becomes to difficult to use a spoon. Transfer dough to a large container. Drizzle with Olive Oil and cover loosely with plastic wrap.
- 2. Store in fridge overnight. When ready to bake sprinkle your work surface with flour. Remove any amount of dough you desire (you can make a full loaf or four small dinner rolls) from the fridge and form an upside down bowl shape curling the edges of the bread under itself several times. Transfer dough to an oil-drizzled Dutch oven or baking pan. Allow to sit for 40 to 60 minutes.
- 3. Preheat oven to 210 degrees for 20 minutes. Just before baking sprinkle the loaf with flour then use a very sharp knife to slash four slashes on top of the loaf. Place loaf in heating oven then quickly slide a broiler pan with 1 cup of water into the bottom rack of your oven. Quickly close the oven. The water will create steam which bakes deep beautiful pockets of texture into your final loaf. Bake for 30 minutes or until deep golden brown.
- 4. Use the refrigerated dough within 14 days for best results. The longer the dough sits in the fridge the better it gets!
