No Knead Bread Recipe

Try this incredibly easy no knead bread recipe. It's got a perfect crust and soft crumb. This recipe takes the normal rise time from 18 hours to a mere 2. Use your oven, sous vide, Instant Pot, or dehydrator to speed up the proofing process.

4.43 from 68 votes

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 40

Rise Time 2

Total Time 2 45

Ingredients

1 ½ cup warm water
½ teaspoon instant yeast
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon sugar optional

Instructions

Prepare sous vide water bath, oven, Instant Pot or dehydrator for proofing. And grease the inside of a stainless steel or other heatproof bowl.
Sprinkle ½ teaspoon instant yeast into 1 ½ cup warm water and set aside to bloom.
Whisk 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon sugar in a large bowl.
Stir together the water and flour mixture. I find it best to get your hands in there, give the bread a good mix until the flour is incorporated and the dough is shaggy.
Place the dough into the greased bowl, and cover with a damp tea towel or plastic wrap.
Set the bowl on the water bath, place it in the oven, or dehydrator - wherever you want to rise.
Allow the dough to rise for 90 minutes, then place your dutch oven into the cold oven and preheat to 450f.
After 90 minutes, turn the bread loaf out onto a floured surface and carefully form a boule. Using gentle motions, and fold the dough into a ball shape.
Place the boule in the centre of a piece of parchment paper, seam side down.
Remove the dutch oven from your oven. Be very careful, it's extremely hot.
Pick up bread boule with the corners of your parchment paper, and lower the boule into the dutch oven.
Replace the lid.
Bake the bread at 450f for 30 minutes covered.
Remove the lid, and bake another 10-15 minutes uncovered - until the crust is a perfect golden brown.
Remove the dutch oven from the oven, and pick up the bread using the corners of the parchment paper again.
Place the bread on a wire cooling rack until cool to the touch before serving.

Notes

If using an Instant Pot:

Add 4 cups of water to your Instant Pot and set to Yogurt Less, and place heatproof bowl on top of pot. Do not use the lid.

If using Sous Vide:

Fill water bath, set to 90F, place bowl on top of water bath. It will float.

If using Dehydrator:

Set dehydrator to 90F, and place bowl inside of dehydrator. Ensure the bowl is well sealed with plastic wrap so it doesn't inadvertently dehydrate the bread.

If using Oven:

Set oven to proof setting, ensuring that is around 90F. Place bowl in oven to rise.