Rosemary Lemon No Knead Bread Recipes

ROSEMARY-LEMON NO-KNEAD BREAD

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine flour, yeast, salt, rosemary and zest.
• Add 1 5/8 cups water, stir until blended (dough will be shaggy and sticky)
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Let dough rest at warm room temperature (70F) until surface is dotted with bubbles (12-18 hours) Pleace dough on lightly floured surface.
• Sprinkle dough with flour, fold dough over onto itself once or twice.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 15 minutes.
• Using very little flour, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat smoot cotton towel with cornmeal.
• Put dough, seam side down, on towel. dust with more flour or cornmeal. Cover with another towel; let rise until dough is more than double in size and does not readily spring back when pokked with a finger, about 2 hours.
• t least 30 minutes before dough is ready, put 2 3/4 quart cast-iron pot in oven; preheat oven to 450°F.
• Remove pot from oven.
• Slide hand under towel; turn dough over, seam side up, into pot; it's OK if it looks messy.
• Cover with lid; bake 30 minutes.
• Uncover, bake until loaf is browned, 15-30 minutes more.
• Set pot on wire rack; cool 10 minutes.
• Using oven mitts, turn pot on side; gently turn bread, it will release easily.

ALMOST-FAMOUS ROSEMARY BREAD

Steps:

• Stir the yeast, sugar and 1/4 cup warm water in a large bowl (or in the bowl of a stand mixer). Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Add 1 tablespoon olive oil, the flour, 1 1/2 tablespoons rosemary, the fine salt and 3/4 cup warm water; stir with a wooden spoon (or with the dough hook if using a mixer) until a dough forms.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead, dusting lightly with flour if necessary, until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. (Or knead with the dough hook on medium-high speed, adding a little flour if the dough sticks to the bowl, about 8 minutes.)
• Brush a large bowl with olive oil. Add the dough, cover with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature until more than doubled, about 2 hours.
• Brush 2 baking sheets with olive oil. Generously flour a work surface; turn the dough out onto the flour and divide into 4 pieces. Working with one piece at a time, sprinkle some flour on the dough, then fold the top and bottom portions into the middle. Fold in the sides to make a free-form square. Use a spatula to turn the dough over, then tuck the corners under to form a ball. Place seam-side down on a prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough, putting 2 balls on each baking sheet. Let stand, uncovered, until more than doubled, about 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Bake the loaves 10 minutes; brush with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and sprinkle with the kosher salt and the remaining 1/2 tablespoon rosemary. Continue baking until golden brown, about 10 more minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool. Serve with olive oil seasoned with pepper.