We are starting the 3rd week of Baking Marathon : Fire up your Oven. This week i m going to bring you No Knead Breads.These No Knead breads are such a blessing on a busy day or i need to bake a bread now kind of days. All you need is to mix the flour and yeast, stir in the water, dump and bake. Many breads don't need two rises, then too they yield that perfectly hole-y bread.
This recipe today is one such blessing recipe. Mix-dump-bake recipe but gives you such a beautiful bread. They make great toast with lots of butter, i made a toast for my kiddo's breakfast and a sandwich toasted well with butter for ourselves. This recipe is such a keeper and will definitely be the one for people who dread the mighty yeast!!
Apart from the yeast, this also has baking soda, though i tried my level best to know what it does, i failed to find. To my knowledge ,it is what giving this bread a crumbly crunchy crust, if you know the science better, do share!! 🙂 But for know, lets eat!
Source : KAF
Ingredients
3 cups Bread flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 ½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon instant yeast
1 cup milk
¼ cup water
2 tablespoon vegetable oil or olive oil
Method
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and instant yeast in a large mixing bowl.Combine the milk, water,in a separate, microwave-safe bowl, and microwave for 30 seconds. Add oil to this warm liquid. Stir well, the liquid will feel quite hot (hotter than lukewarm), but not so hot that it would be uncomfortable as bath water.
- Pour the hot liquid over the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl. Mix it well with a spatula. The dough will be very soft. Lightly grease an 8 ½" x 4 ½" loaf pan, i used a 9 x 5 loaf pan. Sprinkle the bottom and sides with cornmeal.
- Scoop the soft dough into the pan, leveling it in the pan as much as possible. Cover the pan, and let the dough rise till it's just barely crowned over the rim of the pan. I just left it for 45 minutes covered with a tea towel inside my oven.
- During the last 10 minutes of the rise, preheat your oven to 200C. Bake the bread for 22 to 27 minutes, till it's golden brown. If using an thermometer to check the doneness of the bread, then its interior temperature should read 190°F.
- Remove the bread from the oven, and after 5 minutes turn it out of the pan onto a rack to cool. Let the bread cool completely before slicing.
Suma Gandlur says
Looks good, Priya. I am eyeing this recipe from that site for many days now and even thinking to bake it if possible for this BM. 🙂
Pavani says
I love this bread too. KAF is my favorite baking recipe site and they have not disappointed till now.
vaishali sabnani says
Trust me girls I really don't go to any sites.. We have lot of treasure in our group. Excellent bread Priya.
Unknown says
That is such a keeper recipe... Bookmarking to try... With this bm. My bookmarks are growing exponentially...
Delicious and excellent bread..
Varada's Kitchen says
It is almost like a quick bread. The texture and crumb are great.
MySpicyKitchen says
Bread has a nice texture. I will look out for your bakes in this series. Though I am not that afriad with yeast, no knead breads aew always welcome
kitchen queen says
yummy perfectly baked bread.
Padmajha says
The bread has a very good texture Priya. And pls pass me the plate from the last pic...
The Pumpkin Farm says
mouthwatering bread...lovely and easy recipe
Priya Suresh says
Prefect crumb and ultimate crust, such a beautiful bread..No knead is definitely my kind of bread.
Nalini's Kitchen says
This is one such quick bread with a beautiful crust..love the texture of the bread..
Harini R says
Perfect looking bread. Love the texture too.
Srividhya says
I started loving these no knead breads. easy to prepare also. looking great and absolutely perfect
Rajani S says
This is a way too easy recipe for a bread! And it's very hole-y as well!!
Srivalli says
Looks fantastic Priya..while I know we kind of bookmarking all the recipes in this series, I know your this week's theme will be attempted first..very nice recipe..
Kalyani says
Very basic and delicious recipe .. My family would never eat bread for breakfast .. But I can make this for dinner :))
Sneha's Recipe says
Have bookmarked this awesome bread, will make it soon.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Lovely crumbs and awesome recipe Priya! The no kneads are definitely the way to go for beginner bakers.
Gayathri Kumar says
This loaf looks so nice. I think baking soda adds to the texture of the crumb as I always use it in my breads...
veena says
This is so easy and this bread has a lovely crumb