Low Sodium Bread Recipe (No Knead, Reduced Salt)

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This low sodium bread recipe is made with just 4 ingredients: flour, yeast, salt, and water. It uses less salt than traditional store-bought bread and is great for a sandwich, to serve with soup, or for toast.

All you need is a Dutch oven or pot with a oven-proof lid, a mixing bowl, and a stirring spoon.  Serve with unsalted butter for a delicious side dish, turn it into delicious low sodium garlic bread, or serve with your favorite low salt soup or stew.

This is a game-changing low sodium bread recipe right here! It has about a quarter of the sodium as traditional homemade bread, and tastes just as amazing.

We bake a big loaf of this bread every other weekend. Its great for  a brunch, with a chili bar for dinner parties, or even to bring over to a friend/neighbor as a little homemade gift. It’s consistently my most asked-for recipe when I have friends over. Everyone loves this bread!

This Low Sodium Bread Recipe Is

• Warm
• Simple
• Wholesome
• Crunchy on the Outside
• Soft in the middle
• Made with Pantry Staple Ingredients Only!

Low Sodium Baking

Don’t be intimidated by bread baking, this recipe makes the process simple. Mix the dry ingredients, add water, let rise overnight, fold, let rise again, and bake. Follow those easy steps you have a perfect, professional-looking, very impressive loaf of perfectly baked bread. Not to mention, you also will have a kitchen full of the smells of freshly baked bread, which is the best way to wake up on a weekend.

I use a 6-quart Dutch Oven which is just the right size for this recipe. There are some majorly *pricey* Dutch Ovens out there, but honestly any enameled cast iron one will work.

And totally optional – but if you want the perfect little swirl design on top, I use this Banneton proofing bowl for the second rise. It’s inexpensive and the bamboo allows the dough to pull air in for the perfect crumb. Can you make bread without a proofing bowl?  Absolutely!  But I make this low sodium bread so often it was worth the small investment for me to get a banneton bowl… and plus perfect swirl design makes me feel like a pro baker.

Ingredients

See the recipe card below for a full list of instructions and ingredient amounts!

• All Purpose Flour
• Pink Himalayan Sea Salt: I use about quarter of the salt than normal bread recipes, which is why it is reduced in sodium. I haven’t tested this recipe with a sodium free salt substitute yet. If you have, comment below!
• Instant Yeast: I recently tried out this instant yeast  and I absolutely love it!  Instant yeast is great for both overnight breads and this easy quick whole wheat sliced bread recipe too!
• Water

How to Make This Recipe

1. In a large mixing bowl, add flour, salt, and yeast, mix to combine. Add water and stir together until the dough is soft and sticky. Cover with a tea towel, and let rise 12-18 hours (I usually do it overnight) in a warm place. The kitchen counter works fine in the summer, however if it’s cold in your home, I recommend leaving it to rise in an unheated oven with the oven light turned on.
2. Once the dough has risen, place a bread board on the counter and sprinkle with enough flour to cover the surface. Remove the dough onto the board, and begin folding. Take the corners closest to you and fold over the corners farthest from you, and repeat with the far corners and bring them in. Fold 5 or 6 times, and place back in the mixing bowl (or a sperate bamboo proofing bowl, if using). Sprinkle the top of the dough with flour, and cover with a tea towel and allow dough to rise again for an additional 1-2 hours.
3. When ready to bake, place a large cast-iron Dutch oven pot into the oven. Heat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit with the pot inside. Once the oven reaches temperature, carefully remove the hot Dutch oven pot, and place the dough into the pot. Cook covered for 30 minutes. Then remove the lid and cook uncovered for an additional 10-15 minutes until top crust is brown.
4. When bread is finished, carefully tip the bread from the pot onto a cooling rack. Cool until you can no longer resist.

Enjoy a Slice of this Low Sodium Bread with

• Low Sodium Beef Stew Recipe
• Low Sodium Egg Salad Recipe
• Salt Free Scrambled Eggs Recipe
• Low Sodium Sloppy Joes Recipe
• Low Sodium Avocado Toast Recipe

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Low Sodium Bread (No Knead)

AuthorAuthor Kelly Jensen

This low sodium bread recipe is made with just 4 ingredients: flour, yeast, salt, and water. It uses less salt than traditional store-bought bread and is great for a sandwich, to serve with soup, or for toast.

5 from 7 votes

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Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Rise Time 10 hours hrs

Total Time 10 hours hrs 45 minutes mins

Course Baking, Bread, Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 16 slices

Calories 116 kcal

Equipment

• Dutch Oven
• Mixing Bowls
• Wooden Spoon

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 4 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon instant yeast
• ▢ ½ teaspoon sea salt see note below
• ▢ 2 cups water

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Instructions

 

• In a large mixing bowl, add flour, salt, and yeast, mix to combine. Add water and stir together until the dough is soft and sticky. Cover with a tea towel, and let rise 12-18 hours (I usually do it overnight) in a warm place. The kitchen counter works fine in the summer, however if it’s cold in your home, I recommend leaving it to rise in an unheated oven with the oven light turned on.
• Once the dough has risen, remove the tea towel. Start folding the dough inside the bowl. Free the dough from the sides of the bowl with your hands, and take the 2 corners closest to you and fold over the corners farthest from you, and repeat with the far corners and bring them in. Fold 5 or 6 times in the bowl. Leave the dough in the bowl for a second rise, or place a bamboo proofing bowl, if using. Sprinkle the top of the dough with flour, and cover with a tea towel and allow dough to rise again for an additional 1-2 hours.
• When ready to bake, place a large cast-iron Dutch oven pot into the oven. Heat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit with the pot inside. Once the oven reaches temperature, carefully remove the hot Dutch oven pot, and place the dough into the pot. Cook covered for 30 minutes. Then remove the lid and cook uncovered for an additional 10-15 minutes until top crust is brown.
• When bread is finished, carefully tip the bread from the pot onto a cooling rack. Cool until you can no longer resist.

Notes

A Note on Salt

I found just a little bit of salt (1/2 teaspoon for the whole loaf) was enough to give it some flavor. I’ve made this without any salt before, and that works too – but it needs some toppings (jam, butter, mashed avocado, garlic spread, etc). 

If 1/2 teaspoon is too much for your sodium intake, you can adjust to suit your needs.

Nutrition

Calories: 116kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 4gFat: 0.4gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1gSodium: 111mgPotassium: 41mgFiber: 1gSugar: 0.1gVitamin C: 0.003mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 1mg

*Please note, all nutrition content is estimated based on the ingredients we used, it may vary based on your ingredients. Always check your nutrition labels to verify sodium amounts.

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