Super Easy Bread

Greg and I watched a documentary on Netflix called Cooked a few months ago. I've mentioned it before but I will mention it again. Go watch it! It's so eye opening! In the documentary he talks about how bread doesn't need to be these complex recipes with all the kneading and all the ingredients and how back in the day, bread was 3-4 ingredients and that was it. I decided that when we moved I wanted to try and make my own bread and not buy any bread. I did a lot of research on Pinterest and found a lot of recipes for no knead artisan bread. They were all pretty similar, only the amount of salt, waiting time and cooking methods were different. I decided to just kind of combine recipes and see what I could come up with. The bread was so crusty on the outside and bubbly and soft inside. It was just what I was looking for. It was super easy too!

Ingredients:
3 c flour
2 tsp kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon dry active yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water (not too hot or it will kill the yeast, just sort of lukewarm)

Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and combine with a wooden spoon. The dough will be pretty sticky but that's what you want. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit. I let mine sit for about 10 hours. From other recipes it looks like you can leave it as long as 24 hours, but I just did 10 hours. When I came back, it was puffy and bubbly. Heat oven to 500 degrees. Put some flour on the counter and cover your hands in flour. Turn the dough out onto the counter. Form into a ball and cover with plastic wrap to let rest. Take your enamel coated dutch oven and put it uncovered into the oven for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, lower heat to 450 degrees and carefully place the dough into the dutch oven. Cover with the lid and bake for 30 minutes. Remove lid after 30 minutes and bake for 15 more minutes.