Who doesn’t like the smell of fresh baked bread right out of your oven? Rustic Garlic & Rosemary Bread brings all your favorite flavors into a warm bread that is baked right inside your Dutch oven. With a prep and cook time under 3 hours, even the labor of love in this bread is at minimum but still warms you from inside out.

While I’m not much of a baker, I will always long to be a great baker one day so I will keep on trying my hand a baking. Today I decided to take a spin on baking bread. I mean who wouldn’t once you discover there are no knead recipes for baking bread right inside your dutch oven. It wasn’t time consuming and didn’t require much work. It was definitely my kind of recipe to try and was excited to get started.

After doing research on “no knead” bread recipes, I was able to pull this off by tweaking the basics of the recipe to make it my own. Nothing wrong with a basic bread but it is so much better when you play with the seasonings and herbs to enhance it. Adding Garlic and fresh Rosemary into the dough mixture to infuse the flavors into the bread was a first choice. Once the bread was starting to crust up, going in and brushing the Olive Oil infused with Rosemary right over the top just finished it off perfectly. Rustic Garlic & Rosemary Bread right out the oven. Enjoy it along side your favorite soup or pasta dish or if you are anything like me, slather some butter right on top and just eat it. Delish!

Rustic Garlic & Rosemary Bread

Bread infused with Garlic, Rosemary and other herbs and baked right in your favorite Dutch Oven in less then 3 hours.
Print Recipe
Prep Time 3 hours
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Course Breakfast, Brunch, dinner, Lunch
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Equipment

  • Dutch Oven
  • 2 Mixing Bowls
  • Cutting Board

Ingredients
  

Produce

  • 5 Garlic Cloves Minced
  • 2 large Sprigs of Rosemary Stems removed and give them a a good chop.

Pantry

  • 3 cups All purpose Flour
  • 2 1/2 tsp Quick Yeast Should be equivalent to 1 packet. I've also used Active by accident and it still came out the same.

Seasonings/Condiment

  • 1 tbsp Garlic Herb Seasoning No Salt
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp Sugar

Oil

  • Olive Oil Spray

Liquid

  • 1 1/3 cup Warm Water

Other

  • Parchment Paper Heat resistance minimum 420℉.

Instructions
 

Bread Preparation

  • Place Flour, Garlic, Herbs, Seasonings, Yeast, Sugar & Warm Water into a large bowl.
  • Using a spoon, begin mixing ingredients until all are incorporated. Once all is incorporated it will look like a big sticky ball of dough. Do not panic, it is supposed to look like that.
  • Using a spatula, scrape all the dough together to form a ball of a sort.
  • Cover bowl with a clean hand towel and let it rise for 1 1/2 hours in a warm area in the house. It could be in the kitchen, in another room or if you are like me living in Florida where the A.C. is always running, I let it rise in my garage where it's nice and cozy. It should rise and double in size.

Next rising…

  • Lay out a piece of Parchment Paper on the counter and dust it with some flour or if you are like me and want to avoid having the issue of the dough sticking to the parchment paper, I sprayed Olive Oil spray over the whole piece of parchment paper in place of flour and makes it more manageable.
  • When your dough has risen and doubled in size, transfer the dough onto the Parchment Paper.
  • You do not want to work the dough much as this is a rustic version. Gently grab each end of the dough and stretch out and fold over the top and continue to do so until all sides are done and dough is formed into a ball.
  • Flip dough over smooth side up and cover again with clean hand towel to continue to rise while the oven is preheating. I let it rise a minimum 30 minutes or so.

Dutch Oven

  • Place Dutch Oven in oven without the lid.
  • Preheat Oven to 430℉ letting the Dutch Oven get hot alot along with oven.

Baking

  • Using oven Mitts, remove Dutch Oven and place on stove being careful not to burn yourself.
  • Gently grab the parchment paper and lift the dough and transfer it into the Dutch Oven. Using a pairing knife, score the bread or create a design of your choice to allow steam to escape.
  • Cover with Dutch Oven Lid being sure the Parchment Paper is all inside and using the oven Mitts, place back into the oven.
  • Bake for 30 minutes. Should be a light pale brown.
  • At this point, I brush Olive Oil infused with Rosemary over top coating it lightly.
  • Place Dutch Oven without lid back into oven for additional 10 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
  • Once Dutch Oven is removed from oven, lift the bread out using the Parchment paper being sure not to burn yourself.
  • Let it cool for 30 minutes or so and enjoy with your favorite dishes.
Keyword Bread, Dutch Oven, Garlic, Rosemary