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- All right, given the state of the world right now,
I find that everyone is making
like a handful of recipes at home.
This includes banana bread, Dalgona coffee,
and I've noticed a lot of people making bread.
Now here's the thing, making bread can be
a super daunting task and I don't think
that you should have to be some sort of bread expert
or bread scientists to be able to make bread.
So today, I'm gonna show you the easiest bread
you will ever make that will turn out every single time.
So today I'm gonna show you my easy, no knead bread recipe
where, like literally, you throw everything into a bowl,
you let it rise.
There is no kneading and all you need is a Dutch oven
and an oven and three ingredients.
The only thing that we're going to use
are the universal bread ingredients,
which are flour, yeast, salt and water.
That's it.
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And like I said, today we're going to make bread.
A couple basic things that you need to know
about the types of flour that you need
and how yeast works and how we're going to kind
of measure all these ingredients out,
the first thing that you wanna do is make sure
that you aerate your flour.
All that means is that you just kind of take a spoon
and move the flour around.
And that creates a nice pillowy flour.
A lot of people will go in with their measuring cup
and just dive into the flour.
What that does is it really compacts the flour
into the measuring cup and you end up measuring
more flour than you need.
So instead of having a cup of flour,
you end up having a cup and a 1/4 or a cup and a 1/2
of flour because you've really packed it down.
So the way to properly measure flour is take
a spoon or I like to take just a 1/4 measuring cup
and just scoop the flour into your second measuring cup
and then pour it in.
Don't pack it down, don't shake it down.
You really want that flour to be aerated.
What we're going to do with this bread is a slow rise,
so we are mixing our flour, our salt,
and our yeast together with hot water,
covering it with Saran wrap,
and just letting it sit for 12 to 18 hours.
What this will do is just create a really flawless rise
that you have to do nothing for.
It's a low amount of yeast, but it's a long period of time,
so what it'll do is it'll kind of come up,
and bubble, it'll take its time,
and what you'll have is the perfect rise for bread.
Perfect bread with the perfect crumb
and perfect bubbles every single time.
This is a great recipe if you are kind of like me
and you don't really care to be that involved
because you don't even really need your hands for this part.
I just have this great little spoon
and I add 1/2 a cup at a time, mix it around.
The dough will be a little bit sticky and that's okay
because, again, we aren't kneading it.
But do make sure that all of your ingredients are combined.
And I like this spoon because it has a little bit
of like a silky finish to it so the bread doesn't even,
or the dough doesn't even really stick to it that much.
So that's about ready.
All right, now we're going to take our Saran wrap.
Because we are doing this overnight,
we are using Saran wrap.
You don't want to dry it out
and it's sitting for 12 to 18 hours.
You can do 12.
I find 18 has worked out well for me the best,
but you can do either one.
They both make really nice bread
and this is really the only reason why
I have Saran wrap in my house, actually,
is for bread making or if I need something
to rise for a long time.
Just cover that up, let that sit, and then.
it will kind of like rise and bubble.
I already did one last night because preparedness,
so I'll show you exactly what that looks like
and then I'll show you how to prep your oven
and what we're going to bake it in.
We are going to bake our bread in a Dutch oven.
I have a huge one.
It doesn't need to be this big.
This is just the one that I have.
Now what the Dutch oven does,
you want to make sure that it has a lid because what
it does is it contains all of the steam
and what you get is like
a perfectly baked bread every single time.
For 30 minutes, we are going to bake the bread
with the lid on and then, for the last 15,
to help brown the outside of the bread
and create like a nice crispy crust,
we are going to take the lid off and bake it for 15 minutes.
I'm setting my oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit
and I'm preheating it with the Dutch oven inside the oven
so that it can heat up and it comes to the right temperature
and everything's kind of contained.
All right, so after 12 to 18 hours,
you are going to get this bubbly,
kind of, it's not crumbly looking.
It just kind of has a lot of bubbles, it's very fluffy.
What I'm going to do is roll out a piece of parchment
that fits inside of the Dutch oven.
Roll that out, sprinkle some flour,
turn over the dough on to the parchment paper,
sprinkle with some flour, put in the Dutch oven,
put it in the oven for 30 minutes.
It's really that easy.
I'm just gonna go in and very lightly
pull the dough from the side.
Again, if you find that it's sticking,
you can just go back to your parchment,
cover your hands in flour.
You don't want a ton of flour because
it's just gonna like kind of burn at the bottom.
And make some sort of round shape with it.
All right, so now we're going to toss that
into the oven for 30 minutes.
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We put it in the oven for 30 minutes,
we take off the lid, we cook it for another 15.
When you take it out now,
what you're going to wanna do is just lift it
out of the Dutch oven and on to this wire cooling rack.
But if you wanna keep it warm,
it's really easy to just wrap in a dish towel,
and then, you can go ahead and slice it.
This is the one that we just made.
I made this one a little bit earlier
and we are going to give it a try.
But look at how so nice and crispy and then nice
and just fluffy and soft on the inside.
Truly just the easiest bread.
And it takes like no time.
It's so good and it's so fluffy.
I would like to try next seeing if I can make it
with a whole wheat flour that
has more of a healthy grain bread.
But this is so beautiful.
It's perfect for soups and sandwiches and mm.
Thank you so much for letting me teach you
how to make bread and thank you so much
to Skillshare for sponsoring today's video.
Let me know in the comment section below
what you have been making during this time.
Are you going to make this bread?
Let me know by giving this video a big thumbs up.
And let me know, in the comment section also,
what kind of recipes do you wanna see next.
As always, the recipe for this super easy bread
is going to be in the description box
and I'll see you next time.
Bye!