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No-knead bread cut in half. Top and middle visible.
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5 from 1 vote

No-Knead Bread

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 10 minutes
Rest time1 day

Ingredients

  • 3 cups Bread Flour (16.5 oz)
  • teaspoons Salt
  • ½ teaspoon Active Dry Yeast
  • cups + 3 tablespoons lukewarm Water
  • 1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and yeast. In a liquid measuring cup, combine water and vinegar. Pour liquid ingredients over dry ingredients; and stir with a wooden spoon until a shaggy dough forms, and no dry flour remains. Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap, and let dough rise at room temperature for 18 to 24 hours. 
  • With a lightly greased silicone spatula, fold dough at the edge of bowl to middle of bowl, pressing down on dough to seal fold. Turn bowl 45° and repeat folding. Continue turning bowl and folding dough for a total of 16 folds. Dough will deflate substantially as you fold it. Lightly coat a 15x12 inch sheet of parchment paper with vegetable oil spray. Scrape dough out onto center of parchment. Lift corners of parchment; place dough and parchment in dutch oven. Cover dutch oven loosely with plastic wrap; and let dough rise until doubled in volume, about 2 hours. 
  • Dust top of dough with flour. With a sharp knife or bread lame, make one long incision across top of dough, about ½-inch deep. Cover dutch oven, and place on center rack of oven. Set timer for 30 minutes, and preheat oven to 450°F. When timer rings, regardless of when oven reached 450°F, remove lid from dutch oven and reduce oven temperature to 400°F. Continue baking bread until the internal temperature registers 209°F, 35-45 minutes. Remove bread from dutch oven, and transfer to cooling rack. Allow bread to cool completely before slicing. 

Notes

  • To most easily measure the water, fill a liquid measuring cup with lukewarm water. Add hot or cold water as needed to reach the desired temperature, 90–100°F. Once the water is at the correct temperature, slowly pour water out to reach exactly 1½ cups in the measuring cup. With a measuring spoon, measure and discard 1 tablespoon water. Exactly 1¼ cups + 3 tablespoons water now remains in the measuring cup. 
  • Wrap leftover bread tightly in plastic wrap, followed by a ziplock or other airtight container. Store bread for up to a week in the refrigerator, or 2 months in the freezer. 
  • You can add your favorite spices, dried herbs, nuts, seeds, or dried fruit to the bread. Whisk any addition in with the dry ingredients in step 1. I recommend 1 teaspoon for spices, 1 tablespoon for herbs or seeds, and ¼ cup for nuts or dried fruit.