Description
Warm, rustic buttermilk crockpot bread brings comfort straight from your kitchen’s heart. Simple ingredients and slow cooking create a golden, aromatic loaf you’ll savor with every delightful slice.
Ingredients
Scale
Bread Ingredients:
Flour and Yeast:
- 3 cups (750 milliliters) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) active dry yeast
Seasoning and Sweetener:
- 1 teaspoon (5 milliliters) salt
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon (1.25 milliliters) garlic powder
Liquid Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups (300 milliliters) warm water
- 2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) olive oil
Instructions
- Activate yeast by whisking warm water, sugar, and yeast together in a mixing vessel, allowing the mixture to become foamy and fragrant for 5-10 minutes.
- Create dry base by combining flour and salt in a separate large mixing bowl, preparing for incorporation of wet ingredients.
- Pour activated yeast mixture and olive oil into flour mixture, blending thoroughly to form a cohesive, slightly tacky dough consistency.
- Adjust dough texture by incrementally adding water if mixture appears too dense, ensuring smooth and pliable texture.
- Knead dough vigorously for 5-7 minutes, developing gluten structure and achieving silky, elastic consistency.
- Prepare crockpot interior by lightly coating with olive oil, creating non-stick surface for bread formation.
- Transfer dough into prepared crockpot, covering with clean kitchen towel to enable rising process for approximately 1 hour until volume doubles.
- Set crockpot to low temperature, allowing bread to bake for 2-2.5 hours, monitoring for golden-brown exterior and hollow sound when gently tapped.
- Remove bread from crockpot, allowing 10-minute cooling period to stabilize internal structure before slicing and serving.
Notes
- Check yeast freshness by ensuring it foams actively within 10 minutes, indicating it’s alive and ready to help bread rise perfectly.
- Add whole wheat flour or gluten-free alternatives to modify the recipe for different dietary needs, maintaining similar texture and consistency.
- Use a parchment paper sling inside the crockpot to easily lift the bread out without breaking its delicate structure after cooking.
- Insert a kitchen thermometer to confirm internal bread temperature reaches 190-200°F for guaranteed doneness, preventing undercooked centers.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Category: Breakfast, Snacks, Dinner
- Method: Slow Cooking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 140 kcal
- Sugar: 1.3 g
- Sodium: 152 mg
- Fat: 2.0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1.7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 27 g
- Fiber: 1.1 g
- Protein: 4.5 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg