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Easy No Kneed Artisan Sourdough Bread Recipe

Bake Delicious Professional style bread with this Easy Artisan Sourdough Bread Recipe.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Proofing Time 9 hours
Servings 12 Servings
Calories 198 kcal

Equipment

  • Bread Cloche or Dutch Oven
  • Dough Whisk
  • Large Mixing Bowl
  • Lame or extremely sharp knife

Ingredients
  

  • 550 grams Bread Flour Organic
  • 295 grams Distilled water (room temperature) add more if needed to make a sticky wet dough
  • 10 grams Redmonds Real Salt
  • 150 grams Bubbly Active Sourdough Starter
  • 10 grams Rosemary or Herb De Provonce (optional)

Instructions
 

Instructions

  • 1. Measure 150 grams of Active Bubbly Starter into large Bowl, with 295 grams of water, by weight. Whisk Together.
  • 2. Add 550 grams of Organic Bread Flour and 10 grams of salt to the bowl with the starter and water. Add optional herbs now if you are using any. Using a bread dough whisk, mix the ingredients just until combined. Let your dough rest for 30 minutes.
  • 3. Stretch and fold your dough for a minute or two. I pull dough from the outside, and push it down into the center of my dough. I make about 4 or 5 rotations of this and call it good.
  • 4. Cover your dough and put in a warm place, such as your oven, overnight or about 8 hours. Your dough should double in size.
  • 5. In the morning, carefully scrape your dough out onto a floured work surface. Be careful not to deflate your airy dough. Gently pull the dough towards you in a circular motion, tucking the sides and tightening the top and shaping your boule'.
  • Preheat your oven to 500°F with your Bread Cloche or Dutch Oven inside
  • Cover your boule' and set it aside to rise for 30 minutes while your oven and baking vessel preheat. This is your final rise and should not go over 30 minutes.
  • When your Bread Cloche is heated, carefully remove it from the oven. Transfer your boule' to your Cloche and score and or stencil your it. Cover it with the lid and replace it in the oven.
  • Turn your oven down to 425° and bake for 20 minutes.
  • After 20 minutes, carefully remove the hot lid and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes, until bread is at desired color.
  • Carefully remove Cloche or pot from the oven and gently turn the bread out onto a baking rack to completely cool.

Notes

Tips

  • Using parchment paper during shaping can help to transfer the dough to a hot dutch oven and it keeps your work surface cleaner but it may cause wrinkles in the bottom and sides of your dough and affect the crust slightly
  • I use rice flour to dust my surface for shaping my boule' as well as dusting my banneton to keep the dough from sticking to my tea towel.
  • Proofing your dough inside your oven with the light on creates a nice warm, moist environment for your dough
  • Scoring your bread helps with oven spring. It also gives your bread a professional beautiful look. 
  • There are endless beautiful scoring designs online. Begin with some simpler ones to practice with.