Easy Quick French Bread
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Recipe type: Bread
Author: Jillian
Serves: 2 loaves
Ingredients
  • 2 1/2 cups warm water
  • 2 Tbsp active dry yeast
  • 2 Tbsp cane sugar
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 3 Tbsp oil(I used grapeseed oil)
  • 1/4 tsp for sprinkling on top of loaves
  • 4 1/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
  • 1-1 1/2 cups whole wheat bread flour(I have also used whole wheat, white whole wheat, and oat flour successfully)
Instructions
  1. Add warm water, yeast, and sugar to large bowl
  2. Whisk ingredients and let sit for ten minutes until foamy
  3. Add salt and grapeseed oil
  4. Whisk again to combine
  5. Add flours to a large bowl
  6. Use a dough spoon, or hook, and work mixture together until combined
  7. Work in bowl for about 5 minutes, or until dough pulls away from the side of the bowl(you can use a mixer for this)
  8. Turn on microwave for 2 minutes(make sure you place a microwave safe bowl in there with 1-2 cups water)
  9. Carefully take hot bowl with boiling water out of microwave, and then cover dough bowl with warm wet towel and place in turned off warm, humid microwave
  10. let sit in microwave for 15 minutes
  11. Dough should be doubled in size
  12. Punch down dough with greased fist
  13. Place microwave safe bowl with water into microwave
  14. Turn on microwave for 2 more minutes
  15. Carefully, quickly remove water bowl
  16. Place dough bowl covered with damp warm towel into microwave, and let sit for 15 more minutes
  17. line sheet tray with parchment or Silpat
  18. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  19. Dough should have doubled in size again
  20. Scoop out approximately half the dough with oiled hands
  21. Shape with oiled hands into long ovals, or whatever shape you desire
  22. Place loaves onto sheet tray side by side
  23. Cut slits in top of loaves
  24. Let rest on sheet tray for ten minutes
  25. Sprinkle top of loaves with water and sea salt
  26. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until golden brown
  27. Let cool for 5 minutes on sheet tray
  28. Remove loaves and let them cool on wire racks
Recipe by Food Filled Life at http://foodfilledlife.com/2012/11/09/easy-quick-french-bread/