Focaccia bread. Focaccia Bread, Our Favorite Yeast Bread To Make At Home. Focaccia is our favorite yeast-bread to make at home. It has a crisp outside and soft inside, and is perfect to serve with dinner, soups.
Meet my all-time favorite focaccia bread recipe. ♡.
Focaccia is one of the most famous Italian flatbreads.
But before I get to the authentic Genoese focaccia recipe let's see some of the popular focaccia bread "cousins".
You can cook Focaccia bread using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Focaccia bread
- Prepare 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
- It's 1-2 of garlic cloves minced.
- You need 1/2 tablespoon of fresh thyme (or other herb if not available).
- It's 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper.
- It's 1/2 cup of warm water.
- Prepare 1 1/8 teaspoon of active dry yeast.
- You need 1/8 teaspoon of honey.
- You need 1 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
- Prepare 2 cloves of chopped garlic (for top of bread).
- You need of Sun dried tomatoes to taste (for top of the bread).
Dimple focaccia all over with your fingers, like you're aggressively playing the piano, creating very deep depressions in the dough (reach your fingers all the way to the bottom of the pan). Learn how to make Focaccia Bread recipe. Focaccia is an Italian baked flat bread recipe topped with lots of herbs and seasoning, similar to pizza base. So When I made this focaccia bread.
Focaccia bread instructions
- In a cold medium skillet, combine olive oil, minced garlic, thyme, rosemary, and the black pepper. Place the pan over low heat and cook, stirring occasionally, 5 to 10 minutes or until aromatic, but before the garlic browns. Set aside..
- In a large bowl, combine the warm water, yeast, and honey. Stir a few times then let sit for 5 minutes..
- Add 1/2 cup of the flour and a 1/8 cup of the infused garlic-olive oil mixture to the bowl with yeast and honey. Stir 3 to 4 times until the flour has moistened. Let sit for another 5 minutes..
- Stir in the remaining 3/4 cups of flour and the salt. When the dough comes together, transfer to a floured board and knead 10 to 15 times until smooth..
- Transfer the dough to a large oiled bowl, cover with a warm, samp towel and let rise for 1 hour. (It’s best to let the dough rise in a warmer area of your kitchen like your oven)..
- After 1-1.5 hours, preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit..
- Use one tablespoons of the remaining garlic-olive oil mixture to oil a 6x10 approx rimmed baking sheet..
- Transfer the dough to the baking sheet then press it down into the pan. Use your fingers to dimple the dough then drizzle the top with the remaining garlic-olive oil mixture. Let the dough rise for 20 minutes until it puffs slightly..
- Roast garlic chopped for top of the bread.
- Sprinkle garlic (and any other garnish) on top of bread.
- Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Add sub dried tomatoes half way through baking. Cool baked focaccia bread on a wire rack..
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