I love keeping my 5-minute bread dough in the refrigerator for fresh-baked bread every night of the week. And here are five no-knead bread dough uses! Whip up quick and easy rolls, flatbread, artisan bread, and even jam rolls! There are so many quick and easy options for this five-minute bread dough!
Getting a fresh, homemade dinner on the table every night of the week is a lot of work. I don’t love feeding my family fast foods, plus the healthy options of convenience foods are really expensive for a family our size.
That’s why I like to keep a batch of my easy homemade five-minute no-knead bread dough in the refrigerator to use in multiple ways throughout the week.
If you don’t have the recipe, head on over to the post linked above and jot it down, then come on back for these five amazing recipes!
Herbed Flatbread
During the summer months, when the garden is in full production, I like to make large dinner salads. But with growing children, a salad doesn’t always fill them up, or keep them full for long.
That’s why I love making herbed flatbread with my easy no-knead dough. It’s simple to make, and you don’t even need to let the dough rise before popping it in the oven!
This is an herbed flatbread recipe that’s on the table in about 15 minutes from start to finish.
Easy No-Knead 5-Minute Herbed Flatbread
Ingredients
- 1/5 batch no-knead bread dough about a grapefruit sized ball of dough.
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1 tsp flake salt or pretzel salt
Instructions
- With wet hands, grab a grapefruit-sized ball of your no-knead bread dough and stretch it onto a silicone mat placed on a cookie sheet.
- Make dimples in the dough with your fingertips, then brush on the olive oil to coat the surface of the dough.
- Sprinkle the herbs and salt all over the top of the dough.
- Bake in a 375 degree F oven for about 8-10 minutes, or until crust is golden brown on the bottom and just starting to turn brown on top.
Notes
- Try using this dough as a pizza crust! Bake it at 450 degrees F for about 6-8 minutes, top with sauce, cheese and your favorite toppings and bake until cheese is bubbly and crust is golden brown on the bottom (about 5-10 more minutes).
- Mix and match the seasonings to find your favorite!
- Make it sweet by replacing the olive oil with melted butter, then sprinkling a cinnamon and sugar mixture over the top of the melted butter.
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Garlic Parmesan Bread Rolls
Whenever we have company showing up really quickly, unexpectedly, I love to whip up a batch of these garlic parmesan bread rolls.
They whip up super quick and they’re so impressive!
Garlic Parmesan Bread Rolls
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter melted
- 2 tbsp garlic powder
- 1/5 recipe no-knead bread dough
- 1/2 cup parmesan shredded
- 1 tsp sea salt or pretzel salt
Instructions
- Melt the butter and mix the garlic into the melted butter.
- Take a grapefruit-sized ball of the no-knead bread dough and divide it into 6 equal portions.
- Roll out each portion into a fat log shape and place them onto a silicone-lined baking sheet.
- Brush the tops liberally with the melted garlic butter and sprinkle generously with parmesan cheese and a sprinkling of sea salt (or pretzel salt).
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for about 10-12 minutes.
- Once the rolls come out of the oven, brush them one more time with the remaining butter and garlic mixture.
- Serve as an appetizer, on the side of soup, or dunked into marinara!
Notes
- Mix and match the flavors for this roll!
- These would be AMAZING dipped into my raw marinara sauce from my fermented tomatoes!
- These also make great sandwich rolls. Allow them to cool completely, slice in half and top with all your favorite sub sandwich ingredients.
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5-Minute No-Knead Bread Rolls
I love a good roasted veggie soup or chicken chili for dinner, but when you have growing kids in the house, you know that soup doesn’t keep kids very full for very long.
That’s when I love these easy 5-minute no-knead dinner rolls! Try them with a little butter and plum jelly on top.
Or experiment and find your favorite. Just like the garlic-parmesan rolls or the herbed flatbread recipes above, the variations are endless!
TIP: These also make great quick and easy hamburger buns, or sandwich bread for canned meat!
5-Minute No-Knead Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
- 1/5 recipe no-knead bread dough
Instructions
- Using wet hands, pinch off a small, golf-ball-sized ball of dough.
- Stretch the dough around onto itself until a nice tight ball is formed.
- Place dough onto a silicone-lined baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes until just turning golden brown on top.
Notes
- Alongside a bowl of soup.
- Sliced in half and slathered with butter.
- Sliced in half and used as a hamburger bun.
- Sliced in half and used for sandwiches.
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Jam Rolls
They’re like a cinnamon roll, but filled with delicious homemade jam or preserves (like low-sugar strawberry rhubarb jam), rolled up and slathered with melted butter!
I’m not sure there could be a sweeter breakfast!
I certainly love making special treats on weekend mornings, but I don’t always have time to pre-prepare it. That’s where these jam-rolls come into play.
5-Minute Jam Rolls
Ingredients
- 1/5 recipe no-knead bread dough
- 2 tbsp butter melted
- 1/2 cup jam we used raspberry
Instructions
- With wet hands, grab a grapefruit-sized piece of the no-knead bread dough and place it onto a generously floured counter.
- Flour a rolling pin and roll out the dough until it's about 1/2-1 inch thick and roughly into a rectangle shape.
- Melt the butter in a pan and brush an 8×8 inch baking pan with the melted butter.
- Brush the dough with the melted butter until all surfaces are coated.
- Pour any remaining butter into the bottom of the 8×8 inch pan.
- Spread the jam all over the surface of the dough and gently roll the dough into a log, lengthwise.
- Pinch it down at the top to seal in the jam (it's OK if some jam squeezes out).
- Cut the log into 8 equal portions and place them into the buttered pan.
- Let the jam rolls rise for 10 minutes.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 20-25 minutes until they're just turning golden brown on top.
Notes
- Use whatever flavor jam you have on hand!
- Alternatively, you could make these into cinnamon rolls by replacing the jam with about 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon mixed together in a bowl, then sprinkled over the melted butter.
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Artisan Rosemary & Sundried Tomato Mini-Loaf
Whenever we’re having any kind of hearty stew or pasta, this is our go-to bread recipe. The combination of rosemary and sundried tomatoes is so delicious paired with almost any meal!
Artisan Rosemary & Sundried Tomato Mini-Loaf
Equipment
- Banneton basket
- Cast Iron Dutch Oven
Ingredients
- 1/5 recipe no-knead bread dough
- 1 tbsp sundried tomatoes
- 1 tbsp fresh rosemary or 1/4 tbsp dried rosemary
Instructions
- Preheat a small Dutch oven in a 350 degree F oven.
- With wet hands, grab about a grapefruit-sized ball of dough and place it onto a well-floured counter.
- Stretch the dough into a flattened circle and add sundried tomatoes and rosemary.
- Roll the dough up into a log, then fold it into itself making a nice round ball of dough.
- Flour the outside of the bread and drop it carefully into a pre-floured banneton basket.
- Let rise, covered with a tea towel, for 20 minutes at room temperature.
- Carefully flip the dough out onto a piece of parchment paper, then place the dough and parchment paper into the preheated cast iron Dutch oven.
- Cover with a lid and bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown on top.
- Remove from pan and allow to cool before slicing.
Notes
- Sundried Tomato and Basil (replace the rosemary with fresh or dried basil).
- Jalapeno Cheddar (replace the sundried tomatoes with chopped pickled jalapenos and add about 1/4 cup of shredded cheese).
- Cinnamon Raisin Swirl bread (swap out the sundried tomatoes with raisins and add about a tablespoon of a cinnamon-sugar mixture).
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No matter what you do with this five-minute no-knead bread dough, it’s always delicious, always quick, and always so easy!!!
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- Basic Homemade Sandwich Bread Recipe
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- How to Store a Sourdough Starter
- True Sourdough Bread vs. Commercially Prepared Bread
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