Recipe:
For the dough:
350g/12oz Strong white bread flour
200ml warm water
50ml Extra virgin olive oil
One 7g sachet of quick action yeast
1/2 tsp Salt
For the topping you can use whatever you like although the olive oil is essential and the salt highly recommended, I used:
1 Small onion cut into wedges
A handful of black olives, halved
Mixed Italian herbs
Extra-virgin olive oil
Sea salt flakes
To make the Foccacia:
- Mix the flour yeast and salt together in a large bowl, make a well in the centre and pour in the oil and water.
- Bring everything together to form a dough (it will be quite sticky) knead for a few minutes on a well floured surface (you will need to rub some flour on your hands too, it is sticky!)
- Cover the bowl with oiled clingfilm and leave to in a warm place to rise for at least 1 1/2 hours but preferably overnight.
- Once the dough has risen knock it back and press out onto a large baking tray (you could make smaller breads by cutting up first)
- Pre-heat your oven o gas 6/400f/200c
- Using your fingers press dimples all over the surface of the dough, this will stop all the olive oil running off.
- Sprinkle over your toppings, drizzle generously with olive oil (don't be stingy with it!) and sprinkle over some sea salt.
- Leave to rise again for about 1 hour or until doubled in size.
- Bake for around 30 minutes.
17 comments:
i agree... truly fantastic... :)
Oh this looks fantastic! I assume you use 1.7g of yeast? It looks like 17 grams of yeast on my screen and although I am American and have my grams/oz. detriment, 17 grams seems like a lot? I have a recipe for foccacia that I make occasionally, but it looks no where near as good as yours. I'm switching recipes!
I love focaccia, too and the ingredients you used here (just olives and onions) are my favorite!
ahh...I've been wanting to try making focaccia for awhile. Yours looks yummy!
Mikky: Thanks, it was good!
Joie de vivre: Sorry if it's not very clear, I meant one (a single) 7g sachet, that's the standard size here. I'm glad you liked it!
Karen: Yeah they're my favourite too, they make great bread!
pigpigscorner: You should give it a go, it really isn't that difficult. You'll get the best results if you make the dough the night before and finish it in the morning.
I've never made it - will have to give it a try
Me too, something I've never tried and it looks like it will be going on the list for next weekend!!
Thanks Sam :-))
Certainly sounds fantastic. I love the toppings you put on, but it is fun how versatile focaccia is. I'm going to have to make some soon!
I love focaccia, too - it's so much fun to dimple the dough and get your hands covered in olive oil! And then the eating part is good, too. :)
It does look fantastic - tasty and pretty too. Great post.
Your focaccia has come out great! If only I could conquer my aversion to raw yeast I'd love to have a go at this
Looks great, have done a few breads but not gotten around to focaccia, will have to add to list! :)
2 savoury recipes in a row!? Sam are you feeling OK?
Love focaccia and I have a great bottle of cold press olive oil that tastes so yummy it will go rancid because I use it so sparingly. Time to go liberal with it and this fantastic focaccia is the perfect way.
This looks like something I'd also want to dip in olive oil :). Delicious!
Focaccia is one of the easiest breads to make. This looks wonderful!
I'm trying this today. I think I'll try to shoot it, but I don't think it will be as pretty as your picture!
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