Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, basic italian bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Basic Italian Bread is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Basic Italian Bread is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have basic italian bread using 5 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Italian Bread:

1. Make ready warm water, around 100f, no higher than 115f
2. Take active dry yeast
3. Make ready Kosher Salt
4. Get olive oil
5. Get AP White Flour, about 3 1/2 Cups

Instructions to make Basic Italian Bread:

1. Add water to a stand mixer with a dough hook, the yeast, sugar, and salt. Let sit for the yeast to soften or foam. I usually just mix it in the dry ingredients as I've never had yeast fail. That was in the old days with the yeast cubes that some still use.
2. Add 350g (flour 2 1/2 cups) flour and mix at medium speed for 2 minutes.
3. Reduce speed and add 150g (1 cup) flour a little at a time.
4. Adjust flourer for a soft dough that doesn't stick to the bowl.
5. Remove and form into a ball, put into a large greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise until double, about an hour.
6. At this point, I cut the dough in half, wrap in greased plastic and freeze for another time. I use the other half for todays bread.
7. For a full recipe, cut the dough in half and form each into two loaves.
8. Either put them on parchment paper on a peel or sprinkle cornmeal on a cookie sheet. Or, if you're brave, sprinkle the peel with cornmeal to slide the dough.
9. If using a stone, preheat the oven to 375f for 45 minutes.
10. Cover and allow to rise until about double.
11. Without a stone: Preheat the oven to 400f about 15 minutes before baking.
12. Make 3-4 shallow slits in the top of the dough with a serated knife or razor blade. This keeps it from splitting when cooked.
13. On a stone: Gently slide the dough onto the stone and bake for 40 minutes until lightly brown and hollow sounding.
14. Without a stone: Put the pan in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until lightly brown and hollow sounding.
15. Cool on a rack and serve or wrap in plastic rap.

So that’s going to wrap this up with this special food basic italian bread recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!