I make homemade challah bread almost every week. After trying about 5 other recipes, I've returned to my mother's tried-and-true version.
30 Crusty, Chewy, Buttery Bread Recipes
Whether you love pillowy focaccia, craggy soda bread, or a tangy sourdough, there’s a bread recipe waiting for you. And to prove it (eh?), we’ve combed through Food52's decade-old recipe box for our 30 favorite bread recipes, ever.
This homemade naan recipe is wonderfully easy to make, and the results are delicious. It can be made on a pizza stone or on the stove top.
This baguette recipe is the push you need to start baking your own bread. It will only take you 4 hours and it will rival your favorite bakery's french bread.
This milk bread recipe is served as a starter to each dinner table at Kindred Restaurant in Davidson, North Carolina. But the dough doesn't stop there.
This yogurt bread recipe is hearty, healthy, moist, and just barely sweet. Be sure not to over-mix. Honey will work as a mild flavored substitute for molasses.
Potato peels can be a challenging scrap to find a use for, but it turns out this potato peel focaccia recipe is a pretty genius way to use up heaps of them.
This comforting, no-knead peasant bread is ready in as little as 2 hours, unlike other breads that are ready tomorrow. This bread recipe is so simple and good.
This recipe bakes a whole-grain, gluten-free, no-knead, no-mess, life-changing loaf of bread. Psyllium seed husks are available at natural food stores.
A whole-grain, Dutch-oven loaf to make whenever a bread craving strikes. (So, all the time!) This recipe was inspired by and adapted from Eat Up! by Ruby Tandoh. If you can't find whole-milk kefir, …
Leftover butternut squash was the inspiration for this recipe for brown butter rolls. They are nice with a cup of coffee or tea!
This recipe is at the end of a long journey I went on to find the key to my missing family (allow me to explain, here. The recipe serves a crowd, because that's what Aunt Mariah would do with them.
Monkeymom's supple, rich oatmeal rolls recipe have just a hint of sweetness to them -- they're chewy and tender and full of deep flavor from the molasses
Food scientist and baking expert, Shirley Corriher says the dough "should be a wet mess" in this touch-of-grace biscuits recipe. And she was right. They're yum!
This King Arthur's never-fail biscuits recipe exemplifies how to turn 2 ingredients into perfect biscuits, in less time than it takes to drink your coffee,
Our Test Kitchen's best cornbread recipe is fluffy, buttery, just sweet enough, and so quick to come together. The preheated skillet gives it a great crust.
When making this popcorn bread recipe, don’t overwork the mixture. It should just come together in your hands. Make sure to use organic popping corn, too.
During my senior year of college, I lived off campus with two of my best friends, and for the first time, we all completely signed off the campus meal plan. At the beginning of the year, I was given a copy of Joy of Cooking—I think by my mother, who has been responsible for some of my most formative …
My extended version of this 5-minute artisan bread recipe has instructions to let the dough rise in a brotform basket, on a baking sheet turned upside down.
For this homemade pizza dough recipe, make sure you start off with the right water temperature, or else the yeast won’t bloom and you will have to start over.
A riff on Jim Lahey's popular method, this no knead sourdough bread uses a starter instead of commercial yeast. It’s deliciously crusty and chewy.
A good slice of toast can totally make a breakfast, and this bread - which balances between sweet and savory - makes darn good toast. The recipe is slightly adapted from a King Arthur Flour recipe.
I was an English muffin hater until I tried a fresh, homemade recipe. Now, you'll find me huddled in a corner, slathering batch after batch with salted butter.
This fragrant, chewy bread is moist and somewhat addictive. Last year, my older son asked me to buy some flax seeds for his morning oatmeal -- and it didn’t take long to realize that it adds a nice texture and a slightly nutty taste to the breads I usually make. This recipe starts with my favorite …
These sky-high, snow-white loaves are the cornerstone recipe of any respectable Asian bakery. Hokkaido milk bread is feathery soft yet rich and decadent.
No-knead doughs, like this recipe's dough, are usually shaped into round, rustic loaves, but they can easily be turned into fantastic sandwich bread.
For me, this recipe's quintessential oat porridge bread loaf has a deep, auburn crust that shatters when torn. But it's all about the crackly texture.
It's nice to bake this Farmhouse Brown Bread recipe two hours before dinner, let it cool a little, then serve it warm and let people tear off a hunk. Enjoy!