Side Dish

Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style) is for Side Dish.

Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style) takes several minutes to prepare.

Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style) takes several minutes to cook.

Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style) makes 15 servings.

The ingredients for Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style) are:

3 cups lukewarm water
1 1/2 tbsp dried yeast (not the FAST type)
1 1/2 tbsp kosher salt OR 1 tbsp table salt
2 1/2 oz rye flour
2 1/2 oz wholemeal plain flour
1 lb 12 oz plain white flour
NONE of the flours should be bread flour, just plain, ordinary all purpose flour.

Here is how you make Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style):

1. Mix all ingredients together in a lidded container that will hold 5 litres! Make sure all dry ingredients have been wetted. If necessary use wet hands to mix the last bits in. Do NOT kneed.2. Leave container on counter at room temperature for around 2 hours, until it has risen well. Use lid during this period, but do not secure the lid, it is merely there to stop anything getting into the container, it must not be air tight.3. Place container in fridge.BAKING DAYBaking day can be later on on mixing day or anything up to 2 weeks later.1. Prepare a pizza peel by sprinkling with cornmeal. OR line a suitably sized bowl or basket with a piece of linen cloth and sprinkle cornmeal on that. Also place a baking stone in the oven if it is not kept in there, on an upper shelf, with a metal baking tin on a shelf underneath that.2. Sprinkle some flour over one corner of the mixture in the container. Using your hand scoop out a grapefruit sized piece of dough. If necessary use a serrated knife to help separate it from the rest of the dough.3. Very quickly shape into a ball. Do this by pulling the top surface across and back underneath in your hands. turn a little and do that again until the top is nice and smooth.4. Place smooth side up on the pizza peel or smooth side down in the bowl.5. Leave for at least 30 minutes, preferably 45 or even 90 minutes.6. 20 minutes before the end of proving time, preheat the oven to 220 centigrade.7. When the oven is ready, if you used a bowl or basket, sprinkle some cornmeal on a pizza peel and tip the dough out of the bowl onto the peel.8. Prepare a glass of hot water.9. Open the oven, slide the dough onto the baking stone, and pour the water into the pan on the shelf underneath.10. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes. When done the bread should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.11. Leave to cool on a cooling rack until ready. If wanting to slice let cool completely, warm bread does not slice well.A PORTION for the sake of the calories etc is 100gNumber of Servings: 15.5Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user WAHZOE.

The nutritional information for Peasant bread (Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day style) is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 15
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 195.6

• Total Fat: 0.9 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 451.0 mg
• Total Carbs: 41.3 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.7 g
• Protein: 6.2 g