No Knead Bread Loaf

Who wouldn't love to wake up to a freshly baked loaf of bread on a Sunday morning (or any day of the week!) 

Below are the ingredients and equipment you'll need to make one yourself, can't wait to try it myself.

Equipment:

You need a Dutch oven or a med size casserole dish with a lid.

Ingredients:

3 cups NZ grown, organic white wheat flour

1 cup NZ grown, organic wholemeal or white spelt flour (or you can use organic rye flour)

1 tsp salt
1 tsp dry yeast

Stir well together, then add

2 cups cold water
1 tbsp olive oil

Instructions:

Put all dry ingredients into a bowl and stir with handle of wooden spoon until well combined. Add wet ingredients and stir until combined.
Cover bowl with towel or plate and leave for 18-24 hours ( I usually prepare it morning and then bake it next morning).
Stir dough (which will be soft and bubbly) and form into a ball, use some extra flour and flatten, then fold it a few times) 

Put Dutch oven with a little butter in base into cold oven and turn on bake at 220 C. Leave 10 min, then take out and put in dough, make 2 cuts across with scissors in top, cover and bake 30 min.
Take off lid and bake another 10 min.
Tip out onto cooling rack. 

Please note: last week was the first time I got the bread looking like this because I used a bit less water than usual. You can also pour the dough straight into container without forming a ball and bake same way.
That makes a flatter bread with more holes. I had just read that with spelt flour less liquid is needed, that’s when I ended up with that nice loaf. You can try both versions. When the dough is firmer, you can shape it.

Recipe Note: because the dough is quite soft, it needs to be baked in a ‘container’, but it can be done on a lined baking tray, it will spread a bit and be more like a Ciabatta bread :)

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