STEP BY STEP QUICK DUTCH OVEN BREAD

INGREDIENTS

6 cups bread flour / all purpose flour
1/2 tsp instant Yeast
2 tsp salt
3 cups warm water
2 tbsp honey/ sugar
2 cups white chocolate chip (Optional)

corn meal flour for dusting

METHOD

in large bowl combine flour, yeast and sugar, and other side salt.

stir with wooden spoon.   now add Luke warm water.  mix it with wooden spoon until dough foam.

it will be sticky.

now add white chocolate chip. mix well.  cover with plastic wrap .  top with wet towel and let it rise on top counter for 12 to 18 hours.

now it is ready to make a bread in morning.

IN MORNING

on top counter sprinkle little flour  remove dough on it. knock out some air .  do not remove all air  which was created by resting the dough for 18 hours.

cover it with wet cloth

now on top counter lay dry cloth.  sprinkle corn meal on it or flour or oats.

take dough and lay on top of this cornmeal.

sprinkle more cornmeal on top of dough.

now pick your cloth from all 4 corners and put the bread in the bowl , let the dough sit and rise for couple of hours (cover with cloth).

Bake

preheat oven 450F

put dutch oven with the lid on in the oven middle rack for 30 minutes.

now remove hot dutch oven from the oven.

Take your bread dough right out of the bowl and roll it in the dutch oven from the cloth.

Shake it to settle properly.

Cover the dutch oven with lid and put back in oven .

Bake it for 30 minutes.  Remove lid and bake without lid for 5 to 10 minutes more to make it crispy. and  if bread sounds hollow then it is cooked well from inside.

Pull out bread on wooden board immediately form dutch oven or wire rack. cool it for 15 minutes before slicing.

bread is ready to serve