Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, quick and easy crusty bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Quick and easy Crusty Bread is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Quick and easy Crusty Bread is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Because this is a quick bread recipe with a short rise time, it will typically have a tighter crumb (fewer air pockets) than a sourdough Check out our Roasted Garlic & Rosemary Crusty Bread or our Easy Crusty Asiago Bread for a few of our favorite flavors. Add fresh or dried herbs, spices, roasted garlic. This Quick Crusty Bread is everything that you would want in a homemade bread!
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook quick and easy crusty bread using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Quick and easy Crusty Bread:
- Get 6 cups Flour
- Prepare 3 tablespoon Pizza Yeast
- Get 3 tablespoons Sugar
- Get 2 tablespoons Salt
- Get 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups Water
- Get 1-2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Make ready 2 tablespoons corn meal
Made by hand, with active dry instant yeast, flour and water and baked on a hot pizza stone. I made us the perfect bread for soups, stews, bruschetta and to use for sandwiches / panini all. It quickly became (and remains) one of our most popular recipes because it made bakery-quality bread a real possibility for home cooks. But then we heard about Jeff Hertzberg, a physician from Minneapolis, who devised a streamlined technique for a crusty loaf of bread.
Steps to make Quick and easy Crusty Bread:
- In a large bowl mix together your dry ingedients. Make sure they are mixed well.
- Next your going to add your water thats at a temperature of about 110 degrees. This will activate your yeast.
- Once you have mixed all this together your dough ball should be firm. This should take about 10 minutes or so.
- All your oil to your bowl from earlier and make sure tocover the entire bowl. This will help with sticking.
- Next your going to place the dough back into your oiled bowl and place a damp cloth over it. Place this in your over and turn on the oven light. This will help the dough to rise. Should double in size after 20 minutes or so.
- Once thats done remove the dough and place on a floored countertop to kneed it one last time.
- Cut the dough in half and shape them the way you like. For me i like them like this. At this point, with a really sharp knife you can cut slits into the top of your dough. About 1/2 ince deep.
- Place an oven safe bowl into the oven with water in it. This is how we get our crusty crust from.
- Pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees. Sprinkle your corn meal onto your parchment paper. Place the dough on top of that and put into your oven.
- Bake the bread for 20 minutes. Becarefull removing the fresh bread from the oven because it will be hot. Let it stand until cool and enjoy.
Mix flour, salt, yeast and water. The most delicious crusty bread recipe I have tried. It is easy to make and requires very little effort and delivers a perfectly delicious loaf every time. Tips for making the best crusty bread. Using a stand mixer with a dough hook definitely simplifies this recipe even more but it can totally be made by hand.
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