My donabe bread turned out perfect in every way I hoped and dreamed 😛
My favorite no-knead bread recipe has been from Steamy Kitchen that I’ve been using for many years. The original recipe comes from The New York Times but Steam Kitchen’s adaption of the recipe has always worked out great for me. I decided one day to try to adapt her recipe to work for my Japanese donabe tagine pot as an experiment and it worked out perfectly.
If you’d like to try the recipe using a normal cast iron dutch oven or bread pan proceed to her website and easy to follow instructions:
http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html
If you’d like to try this recipe for a Japanese donabe pot follow the adaption below. The ingredients are the same but the method is slightly different to give you the best results with your donabe. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
3 cups bread flour (when I’m ultra lazy normal flour works great, too)
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
1 teaspoon normal table salt (or 3/4 tablespoon of kosher salt)
1 1/2 cups warm water
Steps:
– Mix all the ingredients together. I usually add the water in last. It’ll be quite soggy but no worries! Cover gently with a towel or plastic wrap after you’ve mixed. You’ll need to let the bread rise for 12 hours.
– After the 12 hours, add a little flour to your countertop and place the dough on the flour. You’ll want to gently shape the dough into a ball shape. I recommend using water on your hands to keep the dough from sticking than extra flour as that could change the composition of the bread if too much extra flour is added. When you’ve shaped the dough add it back into the bowl, cover again, and let it rest for another 2 hours.
– 30 minutes before the 2 hours is up preheat your oven to 450 and place your donabe pot (I used the tagine style donabe) into the oven to warm up
– When the 2 hours is up and your oven is preheated take out the donabe pot and now remove your covered dough and gently shape and place the dough blob into your donabe pot, place the lid on the donabe and place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
– After that time, remove the cover of the donabe and let it cook for another 10-20 min. till it looks golden in color like in the image. It won’t take quite as long to cook as a dutch oven so keep an eyeball on it. When it looks done it is done.
Click the image below to where you can purchase the Tagine style Donabe pot used in the recipe:
Enjoy this simple donabe bread recipe!
I need to stark making my own bread in my nest…we all would enjoy such a perfect little bundle.
Easy but very nice and good!! Thanks Chomp Chomp 🙂
It’s simple with 4 ingredients, nice and good! Thank for your sharing! 🙂
it looks beautiful!
Thank you!
Ooh That bread looks perfect!
Thank you for the kind words! It turned out so delicious 🙂
Beautiful! What a blessing to make something so lovely to look at and so good to eat.
Thank you so much for your kind words! 🙂
Beautiful Love bread. Will try this tomorrow.
Thank you so much! I hope it turns out great for you! 🙂
Looks really delicious..
Thank you so much! <3
That is mouth watering!! Bread is my favorite food!!
Thanks so much for the follow.
Thank you so much and for your kind words 🙂 Great blog by the way!
You’re very welcome. Thanks very much!
Now you’ve made me wish I had access to an oven. Only two weeks to go, only two weeks to go… I love our builders though – they are totally focussed on getting my kitchen finished before ANYTHING else in the house, so that I can make them cakes for their tea breaks. I have news for them – it’s going to be Donabe bread before they get anything else. Can’t wait to try it – looks so scrummy and crunchy. Trouble is, Dutch oven is hidden somewhere in the packing cases…
I know exactly how you feel 🙂 My house is actually being remodeled right now, too! I’ve had to take a small break from cooking till it’s all done but it won’t be for another month 🙁 I’m dying to get back to it <3 It's so hard!
This looks delicious. And thanks for visiting my blog, too.
Thank you! And great blog by the way! 😉
Looks amazing! Will have to try it sometime.
Thank you so much! You’ll have to let me know how it turns out for you <3
That b bread looks awesome…..Thank you for the visit and the follow 🙂
Thank you for your kind words 🙂 I love your blog, too!
Oh wow, have you ever tried this with sourdough starter in place of the yeast?
Have not yet, but that sounds like a good idea! Will try next time and let you know how it turns out 😀
Thanks. How much starter would you use?
Looks so delicious!!!
Thank you! 🙂
Thank you!!!
Looks delicious.
Thank you! 🙂
Looks easy and delicious – Merci for visiting 24/7 in France, author of “Solitary Desire-One Woman’s Journey to France”- video http://youtu.be/xG_YTa5sDac & owner of Manoir Fontaine de l’Amour holiday rental in SW France & wishing you all the best!
Thank you! :):)