No-Knead Olive Bread
No-Knead Olive Bread is a rustic and really no-fuss homemade bread recipe. The olives give this 5-ingredient homemade loaf of bread a savory flavor in every bite. Perfect to enjoy when it’s soup weather or for a special occasion.
Servings: 1 round loaf
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups unbleached bread flour plus more for surface and hands
- ¾ cup whole-wheat flour
- 1¼ teaspoons salt
- one 1/4 ounce envelope yeast 0.8 grams
- 1⅓ cups cool water 55-65 degrees F
- wheat bran coarse cornmeal, or more flour, for dusting
- 1 cup pitted black olives sliced thin (Kalamata is best)
Instructions
- Stir together flours, salt, and yeast in a medium bowl. Add water and olives, and mix well using a wooden spoon or your hand until dough is wet and sticky.
- Cover with plastic wrap; let stand at room temperature until dough doubles in volume and the surface is dotted with bubbles (approximately 12-18 hours).
- Transfer dough to a floured surface using a rubber spatula or a bowl scraper to scrape dough from bowl.
- Fold dough using lightly floured hands, lifting edges toward the center. Shape dough into a loose round.
- Generously dust a clean kitchen towel with wheat bran, cornmeal, or flour (I used cornmeal). Gently place dough on towel, seam side down. Dust the top lightly with wheat bran, cornmeal, or flour.
- Loosely fold ends of towel over dough to cover. Let stand in a warm place until almost doubled in volume, 1-2 hours (the dough should not spring back when pressed).
- After dough has risen for 30 minutes, preheat oven to 475 with rack in lower third of oven.
- Heat a covered 3 1/2 quart heavy ovenproof Dutch oven (9 inches in diameter) for 30 minutes or until dough is ready.
- Carefully remove preheated pot from oven, and uncover. Unfold towel, and quickly but carefully invert dough into pot, seam side up.
- Cover with lid. Bake for 30 minutes.
- Uncover pot, and bake until bread is dark brown (mine was golden brown)but not burned, 15-20 minutes.
- Carefully lift bread from pot using metal spatulas, and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.