Easy Crusty Onion Chive Bread | So Delicious and No-Knead

This onion chive bread recipe needs very simple ingredients and requires no special tool. It is super easy and fast bread recipe with short rise time ranging from 1 ½ hours to 2 hours. You can substitute onion and chive with other ingredients, e.g., different herbs. When you try, let me know how it turns out. Also, what other ingredients you have used. Please feel free to ask me any questions or leave comments. I look forward to hearing from you all!

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 03:16:56 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Good

Glycemic Index

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories1780.4 kcal (89%)

Total Fat31.8 g (45%)

Carbs324.1 g (125%)

Sugars9.3 g (10%)

Protein43.8 g (88%)

Sodium3508 mg (175%)

Fiber14.6 g (52%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

0 servings

400gflour

Bread flour or All purpose flour

200gonion

thinly sliced or chopped, typically one minimum size onion

30 gramgreen onion

chopped, or chive, or combination of them

2 tspdry chive

2 Tbspneutral oil

1 ½ tspInstant yeast

1 cupwater

warm, 100 f to 110 f, additional 2 tbsp water if your dough is too dry

1 ½ tspsalt

Instructions

Stir-frying Instructions

Step 1

Wash and chop up onion, scallion/green onion, and fresh chive.

Step 2

In a heavy-bottom pan, heat the pan with 2 tbsp of vegetable oil, add chopped onion and 1/4 tsp of salt and cook for approximately 5 minutes over medium heat until golden and soft. Stir occasionally to prevent burning.

Step 3

Add the chopped scallion/green onion and 1/4 tsp of salt and stir-frying for 3 minutes more over medium heat.

Step 4

Turn off heat and add fresh chive. Let the stir-fried mixture cools down.

Dough prepping Instructions

Step 5

In a large bowl, add 3 cups (400 g) flour, the stir-fried mixture, and 1 tsp of salt. Stir well with a spatula or spoon.

Step 6

Add yeast in 1 cup of warm water and stir well. if you are using active yeast, this is the must. but If you are using instant yeast, you can add directly.

Step 7

Put all ingredients in a large bowl and stir well until a dough is formed until no dry flour you can see.

Step 8

Cover the bowl with a lid or a plastic wrap and place it in a warm place at least for an hour. The dough will almost double in volume.

Step 9

Flour your hands and the surface where you would scrape the dough from the bowl. Gently scrape the dough to the floured surface.

Step 10

With lightly floured hands and a scraper fold the dough over on itself about 4 times to form round or oval loaf.

Step 11

Position the dough in the center of the floured parchment paper, seam-side down.

Step 12

Sprinkle it with flour and put a lightweight kitchen towel over the loaf or close a lid if you are using another container with a lid

Step 13

Let it rise for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Baking Instructions

Step 14

place a heavy Dutch oven in the oven with a lid and preheat the oven to 450 F.

Step 15

Carefully remove the hot Dutch oven from the oven. Lift it by the ends of the parchment paper, lower the dough into the hot Dutch oven, and score the dough. Place the lid on the pot and put it back in the oven.

Step 16

Bake for 15 minutes with the lid on.

Step 17

Remove the lid and bake for about 10 minutes longer.

Step 18

Take the baked bread out of the oven and leave for at least at room temperature before you cut.