Guide to No-Knead Easy Healthy Bread Recipes

Learn how you should be using vital wheat gluten in this guide to easy healthy bread recipes. Get tips on how to make the healthiest bread for you right at home.

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MARK LUINENBURG

Learn how you should be using vital wheat gluten in this guide to easy healthy bread recipes. Get tips on how to make the healthiest bread for you right at home.

Here’s the secret to having fresh whole-grain breads whenever you want them: Quickly mix enough ingredients for many loaves, then let the dough sit for two hours. Then, you can shape and bake a loaf of bread, or you can refrigerate the dough to use over the next couple of weeks. Whenever you want a crusty loaf, just tear off a piece of the dough and shape it into a loaf. Let it rise for 90 minutes, and then bake it. Your house will smell like a bakery, and your family and friends will love you for it.

Only Five Minutes a Day

In writing our first book, we wanted to discard everything that was intimidating about baking and make the process fast enough to fit into people’s busy lives. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day replaced the time-consuming traditional yeast method with something quicker, without compromising quality. The technique called for mixing large batches of dough in advance, storing them in the refrigerator, and then tearing off dough for loaves as needed over two weeks. Quite a lot of people tried it, and our book became part of a home-baked bread revolution.

Along the way, we started a blog (artisanbreadinfive.com) so we could be in touch with readers who had questions. The most common ones have been requests for breads with more whole grains, seeds, nuts, and even for gluten-free breads. People were asking for whole grain breads that they could bake themselves, but they still wanted the same five-minute method. Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day became our next logical step. We wrote our first book with the goal of getting people back into their kitchens to bake really great bread, with recipes mostly inspired by the European tradition. That meant lots of white flour. These new recipes boost flavor and nutrition by replacing most of that white flour with whole grain flour. Whether you’re looking for more whole grains or trying to reduce your cholesterol, whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, or just care about what goes into your body, our new recipes are for you.

  • Updated on Sep 15, 2022
  • Originally Published on Oct 26, 2009
Tagged with: baking recipes, bread, bread baking, homemade bread, no-knead
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