First time making artisan bread!
2011
I’ve made several types of breads before, but never the artisan bread from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. It was on the cover of this Month’s Cooking Club of America. Once I saw it, I knew it was time to see if I could do it.
The one thing I wasn’t anticipating is the dough is super moist and sticky – don’t be afraid of that – it’s all good!
This recipe makes 4 1 pound loaves. I made the whole batch and actually baked all the loaves yesterday! One recipe was this base recipe, the other recipe was for a nutella ring bread (which also turned out great!).
Master Artisan Bread Recipe
3 1/2 cups lukewarm water
4 teaspoons yeast
4 teaspoons course salt (I used sea salt)
7 1/4 cups all purpose flour
I just used the biggest bowl I had. You don’t even need a mixer for this recipe, a spoon is just fine. The best part is you can actually store the leftover dough if you don’t bake it all and it lasts up to two weeks in the fridge!
Directions:
1. Combine water, yeast and salt in a large bowl. With a spoon, stir in the flour. The dough will be wet.
This is what the dough looks like after its all combined which will only take about a minute or so.
2. At this point you can store it in the fridge for later. Otherwise, let it rise on the counter for 2 hours. When I came back to check on it, I couldn’t believe how high it had risen!
The above bread I made is their Crusty Broule from the Artisan Bread recipe:
3. Grab about a grapefruit size piece of dough and quickly shape it into a ball. You can put a little flour on your hands because the dough is sticky!
4. Preheat the oven at 450 degrees and place a broiler pan in the lowest shelf in the oven. I don’t have a pizza stone (which the recipe suggested), but used my pizza pan – place that into the oven to get hot while the oven is getting hot. The directions suggested placing the dough on parchment paper so you can just transfer that to the baking stone or baking sheet. Using a serrated knife, make a few cuts on top of the dough about 1/4 inch deep.
5. Heat one cup of water in the microwave for about a minute. Place the dough on the heated baking stone, or cookie sheet and add the hot water to the broiler pan below that (it will create steam) and shut the door as fast as you can. Don’t open the oven door during baking, thats what keeps the crust nice and crunchy.
6. Bake for 30 minutes, or until nicely browned. You can also test it by tapping on the bottom of the bread. If it sounds hallow, its done. Cool on a wire rack.
Can I just tell you how excited I was when I opened my oven to this gorgeous loaf of bread! The first loaf was a little smaller than this and within half an hour, every member in my family would cut off a slice and it was gone! So luckily you can make 4 loaves of bread with this recipe.
I made the other recipe for the Master Artisan Bread Recipe which was a Nutella Ring. I will post that recipe later this week.
So, have you attempted to make the Artisan Bread Recipe?? If so, how were your results?
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That bread looks great, you just saved yourself $10k! I made this recipe (or pretty darn close) last week. Mine turned out OK, I think I over cooked it. I put the rest of the dough in the fridge to make later, cooked it in the cast iron skillet and it turned out great.
Yummy stuff!
I’ve heard a lot about artisan bread in five minutes a day, but haven’t ever made it. Yours looks so good, I’ll have to bookmark this recipe for future reference!
Your bread looks and sounds wonderful! No, I have never made artisan bread. In fact, I have only made bread once. It actually turned out well, but I’m still a bit afraid of baking as I just can’t seem to follow a recipe…
Looking forward to the Nutella recipe! 
The bread looks beautiful. There is something really therapeutic about making bread from scratch isn’t there? Thanks for sharing the recipe and photos, you’ve inspired me to make some bread soon! Have a great week Jenn.
Well it looks like quite a success for your first time! I would savor every bite. It looks delicious!
I haven’t – but this looks amazing!
I’ve made the Health Bread In Five Minutes recipes before but never the Artisan one! This looks delicious! You did a great job with it, Jenn!
I think my bread looks better – ha!
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I have not tried this one. My personal favorite bread recipe is: 1) preheat oven to 450 degrees, 2) place key in car ignition, 3) drive to store, 4) pick bread from shelf, 5) hand cashier money, 6) drive home, 7) don’t forget to turn the oven off.
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What a gorgeous loaf! So glad you are enjoying the article and all the bread.