Crazy Easy Crusty Artisan Bread. A homemade artisan bread recipe for bakery-fresh bread at home! Ready in just a few hours with a crispy, crunchy dutch oven crust. This easy (and we mean EASY!) homemade French bread recipe is sure to be a hit!

It has got to be the simplest yeast bread recipe in the world, yet it delivers phenomenal results - an Artisan. Learn how to make this easy artisan bread. There's mixing and kneading and rising and it seems like it's going to take forever and have a high chance of failure. You can have Crazy Easy Crusty Artisan Bread using 5 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Crazy Easy Crusty Artisan Bread

1. It's 3 cups of bread flour (better crust) but you could use regular all purpose flour.
2. You need 2 Teaspoons of Kosher salt.
3. It's 1/2 Teaspoon of highly active dry yeast.
4. You need 1 1/2 cups of warm water.
5. You need 2 teaspoons of olive oil.

This crusty Artisan bread recipe comes together quick and easy without all of the extra work! I love serving bread with virtually every meal I make. This quick and easy artisan bread recipe is now one of my favorites! There's a couple things about this recipe that I just love.

Crazy Easy Crusty Artisan Bread instructions

1. Gather a Dutch oven or large oven safe dish or bowl, stand mixer with paddle attachment and a large bowl plastic wrap and parchment paper (baking paper).
2. Mix the flour, salt, yeast in the mixer.
3. To the water, add the olive oil and mix as best as possible.
4. While mixer is on medium speed, slowly add water in a stream until its all poured in.
5. Mix with the paddle attachment until a ball is formed.
6. Place the ball into the bowl and cover with plastic wrap tightly for 24 hrs.
7. After the 24 hrs - Pre heat your oven to 450 degrees, once at 450, place Dutch oven without the cover in fr 30 min.
8. While waiting the 30 min, roll dough into a ball using fresh flour sprinkled on the counter (cover and let rest).
9. When the 30 min are up, remove the Dutch oven and place a piece of pre cut parchment paper in the bottom place the dough onto the parchment paper and sprinkle half handful of flour.
10. Cut an “X” across the dough.
11. Cover and put in the oven for 30 min.
12. Remove cover and continue baking for 8-15 minutes (this depends on your oven, mine usually takes 8 min to get a golden crust on top, just keep an eye on it).
13. Slice and Devour!!!! I suggest a strong cheese with honey, maybe some tomatoes, basil, mozzarella and olive oil. etc etc.

The beautiful, crusty and fluffy bread that results from just four ingredients will knock your socks off! All it takes is flour, salt, yeast and water, all mixed up in a bowl. Enjoy this artisan sourdough bread recipe with dinner and see just how easy and delicious it is! One of my most reader-tested and approved recipes! Fresh crusty bread with no kneading required.