crusty french loaf

No knead, easy, roasted garlic crusty soup bread is the best homemade bread! Crusty, crunchy exterior with a soft, chewy, sweet garlic laced interior. The perfect bread for soups, pot roasts, or to make sandwiches.

<em>This recipe is inspired by this <a href="http://www.lifeasastrawberry.com/easy-crusty-french-bread/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Easy Crusty French Bread</a> recipe from <a href="http://www.lifeasastrawberry.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life as a Strawberry</a>.</em>

Roasted Garlic Crusty Soup Bread

extra virgin olive oil

garlic

(1 packet or 7 grams) active dry yeast

(4 grams) granulated sugar

(about 7 grams) salt

Roast the garlic

  Line a small, oven safe skillet or dish with aluminum foil.  Place the garlic, with the top of the head removed in the center.  Pour the olive oil over the center and then close the aluminum foil around it to enclose it.  Roast in a preheated 375°F oven for 20 minutes or until garlic cloves are very soft.  Remove from the hot oil and let cool before squeezing each clove of garlic from the skin.

Prepare the yeast

  Combine sugar and 100-110°F water in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the dough hook.  Mix in yeast and let proof for 5 minutes until foamy.

Make the dough

  In a medium size bowl, mix the kosher salt and flour together.  On low speed, add the dry ingredients to the yeast mixture slowly.  Immediately after adding all the dry ingredients, add the roasted garlic cloves and mix until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl.

Generously sprinkle flour over the top of the dough and flip over in the bowl.  Sprinkle flour over the top again and cover with a kitchen towel.  Let rise for 1 hour in a warm place.

After the first rise, flour a flat surface and gently tip the dough out of the bowl onto the floured surface.  You want to disturb the dough as little as possible to keep all the air bubbles that formed during the rising.  Do not punch down the dough.

Fold and shape the dough

  Again, sprinkle the top of the dough with flour and gently fold the four side of the dough on top itself.  Turn over and shape into a loaf.  Transfer to a small, floured bowl.

Rise again

  Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.  While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 460°F with a dutch oven (with the lid on) inside.

Bake

  Once the dough has rises and the oven is to temp, very very carefully remove the hot dutch oven and the lid.  Place a piece of parchment paper onto a flat surface and gently tip the dough out of the mixing bowl &#8211; seam side up &#8211; onto it.  Transfer the loaf and the parchment paper into the hot dutch oven.

Cover the dutch oven with the lid and bake for 30 minutes.  After 30 minutes, remove the lid and bake uncovered for 10 to 15 minutes or until crust is a beautiful browned color.

Use a spatula and oven mitts to transfer the hot bread to a cooling rack.  Let cool for about 15 minutes before cutting or tearing into it.

i def need to make this bread! I'm not much of a baker, but am really trying to get into it this year. loving the idea of crusty garlic bread!

One of my goals for this year is to start making my own bread, and your recipe couldn't come in better time! The bread looks fantastic, fluffy inside and crusty, golden outside! I can only imagine how heavenly the house must smell when this is out of the oven! can't wait to try this!

Homemade bread is the best hands down, but a crusty free form bread is even better! This looks and sounds so good! Now I want to get into the kitchen and make this :D

The texture of this bread looks just perfect!  Exactly what is needed for dunking in soup!

Love all the tips!! I can't wait to make this soup bread...sounds delicious! My family is going to love it!

This looks absolutely delicious! There's nothing better than fresh bread right out of the oven and I love that this one has plenty of delicious roasted garlic. Saving for later!

Garlic is an amazing flavor to making food delicious. Surely this bread is delicious too. Cant wait to try one.

My family is going to LOVE this recipe! We love a nice crusty bread with most dinners, especially soup!

I bet the smell of this garlic bread is to die for! Going to try it tomorrow with bowl of tomato soup.

Yep, I think I could be best friends forever with this bread! I think I would be happy just eating this on its own with some good butter! Saving this x

I made this bread today to go with some fall soup. The garlic is delicious! The flavor makes you feel as if you had died and gone to garlic heaven! The crust is perfect! Thank you so much from a family of garlic lovers!

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