Healthy Recipes

Directions

1. Whisk dry ingredients

   In a large glass or ceramic bowl, whisk both types of flour, yeast, and salt together.

2. Stir in water

   Add warm water, and using a wooden spoon, stir until blended. The dough will be shaggy and sticky.

3. Let dough rest

   Cover with plastic wrap. Let dough rest 12 to 18 hours at warm room temperature, about 70-72 degrees.

4. Check dough

   After dough has rested the appropriate amount of time, the surface should be dotted with bubbles.

5. Flour surface

   Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it.

6. Fold dough

   Sprinkle dough with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice.

7. Cover with plastic

   Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes on your work surface.

8. Shape dough

   Uncover dough and, using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball.

9. Sprinkle with oats

   Generously sprinkle dough with rolled oats.

10. Grease bowl

    Lightly grease your bowl with vegetable or olive oil and place dough back in bowl.

11. Let dough rise

    Cover with a cotton towel (not terrycloth) and let rise for about 2 more hours.

12. Check dough

    When it’s ready, the dough will be more than double in size and won’t readily spring back when poked with a finger.

13. Preheat oven

    At least a half an hour before the dough is ready, preheat oven to 450 degrees.

14. Place pot in oven

    Put a 6-8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven while it heats.

15. Remove pot from oven

    When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven.

16. Place dough in pot

    Remove dough from bowl and carefully place in pot. If it looks messy, shake the pan once or twice. The dough will straighten out as it bakes.

17. Bake

    Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes. Remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is golden brown.

18. Cool and serve

    Let cool completely on a wire rack before serving.