Name: Crusty Italian Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 5 h
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 cups, all-purpose, unbleached flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon yeast; 2 cups warm water

Crusty Italian Bread {C-r-a-z-y Easy To Make}

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Crusty Italian Bread is an easy homemade bread recipe made with two main ingredients, flour and yeast. The rest is salt and water. It has the perfect crust, crunchy and slightly chewiness. And the inside is dreamy soft, and delightful! All you want in a loaf of crusty bread.

Making a Crusty Italian Bread doesn't have to be as pain laboring as I thought.

As soon as I saw this recipe over at Food For A Hungry Soul, I knew it would be my go-to crusty bread recipe too.

There is no kneading; you just mix all the ingredients, let it rise for four hours, shape it into loaves, and bake. How c-r-a-z-y easy is that?

Not only is the recipe fabulous for making Crusty Bread----you can also make Crusty Rolls and Pizza Dough with it. Don't you just love recipes that just keep on giving!

Take a look at this video for other ways to make this wonderfully easy bread.

Thank you, Tony, for sharing the video and the Word of God...love it. When you are in Texas, come see me!! Blessing, K

Give us day by day our daily bread. Luke 11:3

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE CRUSTY ITALIAN BREAD

4 cups, all-purpose, unbleached flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon yeast

2 cups warm water

HOW TO MAKE CRUSTY ITALIAN BREAD

When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl; add 2 cups of warm water. Mix until all the flour is incorporated and a dough has formed. Cover with a towel and let rise for 4 hours—Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.

On a well-floured surface, pour out the dough covering the outside surface with flour as the dough is wet and sticky. Handling the dough as little as possible (you're trying not to burst the bubbles), shape your dough into your desired shape, and place it on the parchment paper prepared baking sheet that was set aside until time to bake.

Preheat oven to 500 degrees F. Put an ovenproof bowl with 2-3 cups of hot water in the oven.

Place the prepared dough on the parchment paper lined sheet pan in the oven above the water. Bake for 35-50 minutes, depending on how dark you would like your bread. Watch how dark the bread crust gets as to how long you leave it in the oven.

The oven temperature is really high, and it is easy to over brown the bread. So check the bread after 35 minutes.

Note: For more hints about using this dough, I suggest you visit the post for Nonna's Crusty Bread. She has suggestions for keeping the dough in your refrigerator and reheating the bread.