I love focaccia bread and of course I had to make it. This recipe was given to me by an Italian friend, but I had to change the recipe because I use all-purpose flour, and the original recipe is with bread flour. The dough will be soft and sticky, but it shouldn’t be too sticky. If you are not able to handle the dough you can use water or oil for your hands, I prefer oil. Also, I’m using my favorite toppings for this bread, but you can use anything you like on bread. This bread is good for sandwiches too.
Ingredients:
1. All-purpose flour- about 4 cups
2. Water – about 2 cups(lukewarm)
3. Yeast – 2tsp.
4. Salt- 2tsp.
5. Olive oil
Topings:
1. Kalamata olives
2. Butter – 1tbsp.(melted)
3. Rosemary – 1tsp.
Mix the ingredients for the dough. It will be sticky and soft. You will need to stretch and fold 4 times, and every 30 min. Simply take one side of the dough, pull up and fold over the other side, do this with each side.
After the 4th stretch and fold, grease a pan with olive oil and put the dough in it, pan should be 10inchx13,5inch and 2inch deep, cover and leave it for 30 min. After 30 min, with your fingers make dimples in the dough, spread the melted butter, add the olives and rosemary, leave it to rise for about an hour. After an hour, turn the oven on 400° and bake for 25-30 min. Rising time will depend on how warm is in your kitchen, it may take longer.
It came out really good and in my kitchen the rosemary smelled so good.
Now, after I made this with olives, I’m thinking Parmesan cheese would have been really yummy on top.
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