Using What You Have: 5-Minute Artisan Bread

Revealed: by Crystal Paine on October 21, 2022  |  This put up could comprise affiliate hyperlinks. Learn my disclosure coverage right here.

Welcome to my common put up sharing inventive methods I’m making do with what we now have. I typically share a lot of these issues on Instagram tales, however I do know a variety of you don’t have Instagram or don’t test it recurrently, so I’m transcribing a few of my weekly tales into weblog posts to present you inspiration and encouragement for tactics you may make do and use what you will have.

I used to bake bread very recurrently — typically a number of instances every week. Nonetheless, previously few years, I hadn’t baked bread as a lot as a result of I’d been discovering so many nice offers and markdowns on complete wheat/complete grain bread. I might simply purchase further loaves when I discovered a superb sale and we all the time had some within the freezer.

However not too long ago, I hadn’t discovered as many good markdowns on bread and I had really gotten to the very finish of my freezer bread stash. So I first made home made bread within the bread machine. Then, impressed by my pal, Kate, I made a decision to attempt my hand at making 5-Minute Artisan Bread.

If you happen to’ve been round right here a extremely very long time, you simply would possibly keep in mind years in the past after I tried to bake Artisan Bread and it flopped fairly royally. However I made a decision sufficient time had handed and I used to be courageous sufficient to attempt once more.

Nicely, let’s be trustworthy, it additionally helped that my pal Kate posted a step-by-step video tutorial on Instagram.

Now, I must warn you: the recipe can really feel intimidating and prefer it’s WAY extra sophisticated than the promised 5-Minute recipe it’s touted as. However I feel somebody very, very, very detail-oriented wrote the recipe and the directions may very well be edited down a LOT. It could be simpler to only watch Kate’s movies as an alternative.

Right here’s my first loaf. I took it out of the oven somewhat sooner than I ought to have, nevertheless it was nonetheless scrumptious. The subsequent loaf (that I didn’t get a photograph of), I baked longer and it was crustier. All in all, I’d advocate this recipe. As soon as I received the grasp of it, it was very easy to do and it solely takes a number of elements!