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Two slices of freshly baked wholewheat bread
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Baby's First Bread – Easy No-Knead Bread

This is a super easy wholewheat no-knead bread to make. Takes only 5 min of prep and you have a delicious homemade bread that will melt in your mouth. Perfect for your baby's first bread, delicious for the whole family.
Course Bread
Cuisine European
Diet Low Lactose
Fridge Life? Store at room temp in airtight container for 3 days
Freezable? 3 months
Resting Time 12 hours
Servings 16 slices
Calories 109kcal
Author Dora

Equipment

  • Mixer

Ingredients

  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 cups very warm water not boiling
  • 1 tbsp active dry yeast
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Make the dough

  • Take a large mixing bowl and place the salt and dry active yeast into it.
  • Pour hot water in the mixing bowl.
  • Mix it all with a wooden spoon.
  • Add all the flour in the mixing bowl.
  • Mix it all up until you have dough.

Let it rise

  • Cover the bowl with a clean tablecloth and leave in a warm place for about 2 hours until the dough doubles in size.
  • Once the dough has risen, take a little bit of flour, sprinkle on top of the risen dough and use it to make a ball.
  • Place the ball on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and let it sit for another 40 minutes.

Bake

  • Preheat the oven to 450 F / 220 C.
  • After 40 minutes, gently touch the sides of the dough to make it more compact and hold shape.
  • Place the bread in the oven in the middle and at the bottom of the oven place another baking tray with water. This water will help your bread have a crispy cover.
  • Bake for 30 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and let it cool.

Notes

How to serve? 
  • Babies. The crust will be too crunchy but the inside of the bread will be nice, soft and warm – perfect for babies So just tear it up and serve. Or slice the bread and cut finger sized shapes that your baby can easily grab (with no crust).
  • Everyone else. When that bread comes out of the oven, tear into it and spread some butter (or whatever you prefer). For me there is nothing better than watching butter melt on freshly baked bread.
What about babies and salt?
  • 1 slice of this bread should have approximate 146 mg of sodium which is lower than the recommended daily amount (up to 12 months – less than 1g of salt a day / less than 0.4g sodium)}. So if you are feeding your baby homemade food with no added salt you should be ok to give them a slice of bread. However if you are giving them pouches, cheese etc just make sure you are under the recommended daily amount for salt.
 

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 109kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 146mg | Potassium: 74mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 0.001mg | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg