No Knead Italian Rustic Bread - Recipe Has Been Corrected!

Total Time: 3 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, i prefer to use robin hood nutri flour blend
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon dried yeast granules
• 1 5/8 cups water, an eighth of a cup is equal to 2 tablespoons

Recipe

• 1 i like to prepare this with my kitchenaid dough hook.
• 2 place flour, salt, sugar and yeast in the mixer bowl. add the water.
• 3 using the dough hook and the "stir" setting on the mixer allow the dry and wet ingredients to come together (this should take a minute) until all the flour is incorporated. you can do this with a wooden spoon or spatula just as effectively.
• 4 cover the bowl with a towel and rest in a warm place for 12 to 18 hours. it will double in size, bubble and long gluten strands will form.
• 5 lightly flour your hands and the work surface then remove the dough from the bowl. quickly form it into a ball.
• 6 thoroughly flour a cotton towel and rest the dough on it. cover it with another floured cotton towel.
• 7 you may also rest the dough on a non-stick â??silpatâ?? mat and cover it with just one towel. rest the dough a second time. in 2 to 3 hours it will rise again and double in size once more.
• 8 a half an hour or so before the dough is ready preheat your oven to 450 degrees. you may use cast-iron, steel, enamel or ceramic.
• 9 when the dough has fully risen slide your hand under the towel and quickly invert the delicate dough into the hot pot. shake the pot a bit to settle it then place the lid on the pot and start baking.
• 10 bake for 30 minutes with the lid then remove it and bake for 15 minutes more.