Two Hour No Knead Bread Recipes

2 HOUR NO KNEAD BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine yeast and warm water. Let sit for five minutes. Add flour and salt to the yeast mixture and stir until it's well combined (dough will be lumpy and won't look like your typical dough for rising). Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let stand in a warm area for 1 hour (I like to put it on my stove with the stove light on). After the dough has been rising for 40 minutes, place a 3 to 6-quart Dutch oven with lid in a cold oven and preheat to 450° F. Continue letting the dough rise for 20 more minutes. After the dough has risen for the full hour, turn dough out on a well-floured surface and sprinkle the top with a little additional flour. Using a bench scraper (or hands) fold dough over about 10 times to shape into a ball. Place dough ball into a large bowl lined with parchment paper (NOT wax paper) and cover with a towel. Let dough rest on counter for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, carefully (using oven mitts) remove heated Dutch oven and place the lid on a safe surface, lift the parchment paper and dough from the bowl and place gently into the hot pot. (the parchment paper too). Cover and bake for 30 minutes. Then, remove lid and bake uncovered 10 additional minutes or until bread is a golden color and sounds hollow when thumped. Remove Dutch oven carefully from the oven, with oven mitts, and take the bread out of the pot to cool. It's best to let bread cool completely.

SPEEDY NO-KNEAD BREAD

Steps:

• Combine flour, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Add 1 1/2 cups water and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest about 4 hours at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
• Lightly oil a work surface and place dough on it; fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 30 minutes more.
• At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6-to-8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under dough and put it into pot, seam side up. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes.
• Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.

ALMOST NO-KNEAD BREAD 2.0

Steps:

• Whisk flour, yeast, and salt in large bowl. Add water, beer, and vinegar. Using rubber spatula, fold mixture, scraping up dry flour from bottom of bowl until shaggy ball forms.
• Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 8 to 18 hours.
• Lay 12- by 18-inch sheet of parchment paper inside 10-inch skillet and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
• Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface and knead 10 to 15 times.
• Shape dough into ball by pulling edges into middle.
• Transfer dough, seam-side down, to parchment-lined skillet and spray surface of dough with nonstick cooking spray.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise at room temperature until dough has doubled in size and does not readily spring back when poked with finger, about 2 hours.
• About 30 minutes before baking, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place 6- to 8-quart heavy-bottomed Dutch oven (with lid) on rack, and heat oven to 500 degrees. Lightly flour top of dough and, using razor blade or sharp knife, make one 6-inch-long, 1/2-inch-deep slit along top of dough.
• Carefully remove pot from oven and remove lid.
• Pick up dough by lifting parchment overhang and lower into pot (let any excess parchment hang over pot edge).
• Cover pot and place in oven.
• Reduce oven temperature to 425 degrees and bake covered for 30 minutes.
• Remove lid and continue to bake until loaf is deep brown and instant-read thermometer inserted into center registers 200 degrees, 20 to 30 minutes longer.
• Carefully remove bread from pot; transfer to wire rack and cool to room temperature, about 2 hours.