A super easy recipe for making the famous crunchy French baguette at home
These French baguettes almost make themselves while you do other things. You need time, but other than that they can't go wrong! The French baguttes will come out beautiful and crispy.
Servings: 2 Baguettes
Equipment
- Kitchen machine
Ingredients
- 380 g Flour
- 300 ml Water
- 9 g Salt Approx. ½ cs, less if on low salt diet
- 6 g Fresh Yeast Approx. ¼ of a pack
Instructions
The Dough (10 minutes)
- Add the flour in the bowl of your kitchen machine
- Pour in the water, tempered from the tap - no need to heat
- Turn on the machine at speed 1 for 1 minute, using the dough hook
- While the machine is still on add the salt and yeast in crumbles
- Increase the machine speed to speed 2 and let it turn for 5 minutes. Your dough should come out quite sticky.
First Step of Resting (1 hour)
- Release the bowl from the machine and cover with a kitchen towel. Rest 1 hour
- Fold the dough on itself 3 times (either directly in the bowl or on a lightly floured table) and cover the bowl with plastic. Put in fridge until next day. Make sure the bowl is big enough, your dough will more than double its size over night.
Next day, second and third step resting (1 hour 30 minutes)
- Remove the dough very delicately from the bowl onto the table lightly floured. Cut the dough in 2 equal parts. Cover with a kitchen towel for 50 minutes
- Fold the dough outwards towards the middle from both side. Turn it over and delicately roll it out to a baquette shape.
- Put them in the baguette mold or alternatively on baking paper on a grid
- Let it rest for 30-35 minutes under a kitchen towel
Cooking (25 Minutes)
- While the dough rests, heat your oven to 250°c with a bowl of water placed on the bottom of the oven. Use the bread function of your oven or alternatively air circulation. The water steam is what makes the famous crust! So adding the bowl of water in the oven is a must do for this recipe.
- Cut 2 stripes in each baguette using a scalpel or razor blade so that it can open up during cooking.
- Add the mold with the baguettes onto a grid in the oven and reduce the temperature to 220°c. Cook for approx 25 minutes.
Notes
The French Baguettes are delicious to eat fresh from the oven and can be served 15- 20 minutes after cooking. They can also be frozen and reheated for approx 15-20 min at 90°c.