Dutch Oven Caraway Rye Bread

Description

No-fail and easy to make, no kneading, no double-rise. Caraway rye bread the way you like it! Perfect every time.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups light rye flour (such as Bob’s Red Mill®)
  • 2 cups bread flour
  • ¼ cup buttermilk
  • 2 tablespoons caraway seeds
  • 1 ½ tablespoons vital wheat gluten (Optional)
  • 2 teaspoons flaked kosher salt, crushed
  • 1 ¾ cups warm water
  • 2 teaspoons white sugar
  • ⅜ teaspoon active dry yeast

Instructions

  1. Mix together rye flour
  2. bread flour
  3. buttermilk
  4. caraway seeds
  5. vital wheat gluten
  6. and kosher salt in a very large bowl. Set aside.
  7. Combine water
  8. sugar
  9. and yeast in a small bowl; let sit until yeast is creamy
  10. about 5 minutes. Stir yeast mixture into flour mixture until well mixed and caraway seeds are evenly distributed. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 18 hours.
  11. Place a Dutch oven in the oven and preheat the oven to 500 degrees F (260 degrees C).
  12. Transfer dough to a heavily floured work surface. It will be somewhat elongated
  13. so take the right and left sides and fold them into the middle. Turn dough over and gently use a spatula to tuck corners under; cover with plastic wrap for 15 minutes. Remove plastic wrap
  14. dust dough with flour
  15. and make shallow cuts in the top for full bloom.
  16. Carefully place dough in the preheated Dutch oven
  17. cover immediately
  18. reduce oven temperature to 460 degrees F (238 degrees C)
  19. and bake until bread is cooked through
  20. 30 to 35 minutes. Carefully transfer bread from the Dutch oven to an oven rack and bake for 5 minutes.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 35 mins

Total Time: 19 hrs 5 mins

Servings: 12

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