Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Focaccia

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, focaccia. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Focaccia is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Focaccia is something which I have loved my whole life.

Combine the warm water, yeast and sugar in a small bowl. In the bowl of a mixer fitted. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, sugar, yeast, garlic powder, oregano, thyme, basil and black pepper. Mix in the vegetable oil and water.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook focaccia using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Focaccia:

1. Prepare Dough*
2. Take White Bread Flour - 100% | 517g | 4 Cups
3. Get Water - 90% | 465g | 2 Cups
4. Get Salt - 2.5% | 13g | 2 tsp
5. Take Yeast - 1% | 5g | 1.5 tsp
6. Make ready Toppings (rough guideline)*
7. Take Olive Oil | 100ml (or as much as desired)
8. Prepare 3 cloves Finely Chopped Garlic |
9. Take Finely Chopped Rosemary | 2 Tbsp I won't be using Rosemary. Share your alternative with the group
10. Make ready Coarse Sea Salt
11. Get You can also add any other topping of your choice

Our focaccia has a moist but airy crumb sandwiched between thin but ultra-crunchy top and bottom crusts, thanks to a generous amount of olive oil in the pan and on top of the dough. If you want to fill your kitchen with the smell of fresh-baked bread but you're nervous about shaping a boule or working with a starter, focaccia is the best place to begin. 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, stews, or even sliced in half and used for sandwiches.

Instructions to make Focaccia:

1. 1. Warm up the water in the microwave - Then stir in 1 tsp of Sugar - Add the Instant Yeast - Stir well - Allow to rest for 5 to 10 minutes until the mixture starts to bubble
2. 2. In the meantime, measure out the Flour into a large Mixing Bowl (or the bowl of your Stand Mixer) - Add the Salt to the Flour. - Either Mix by hand with a whisk or turn on the Stand Mixer - for a minute or so - This aerates the flour
3. 3. Prepare the focaccia toppings - Heat up the olive oil in the microwave or pot and then take off the heat and put in the garlic and rosemary/chilli/other ingredient. - Leave it to infuse with the oil and rosemary. - The salt will be sprinkled on the dough just before baking.
4. 4. Mix up the all ingredients for the dough - either by hand using a glove - or in the Stand Mixer until everything comes together. This is a very wet dough, so do not be alarmed at this stage that the dough is very sloppy.
5. 5. Do 3 or 4 sets of stretch and folds in the first hour after initial mixing. - - For 3 sets of S&F - One set of S&F's every 20 minutes. - - For 4 sets of S&F - One set of S&F's every 15 minutes. - - After the last S&F, the dough should be nice and elastic and pass the windowpane test, if a small piece is stretched out. If dough is still very sloppy, do another set of S&F.
6. 6. Let the dough rise in a warm (not ice cold) spot for about 90 minutes after final fold. The dough should double in size.
7. 7. Prepare a baking tray by lining it with a silicone sheet or baking paper. Then add some (1/4) of the infused olive oil onto the top of the dough before turning it out (hold back the garlic and rosemary bits). - Then loosen the dough and turn it onto the lined baking tray. The dough should be able to move around on the baking tray due to the oil.
8. Add the remaining oil to the top of the dough (with the garlic and rosemary) and use your hands/fingers to massage/spread out the dough until it has been spread out onto the tray (see photo below). - Use your fingers to make dimples in the dough. The oil should pool in the dimples. You can also gently pick up each side of the dough and stretch it out gently. You can flatten the dough quite thin, but you are welcome to leave the dough a bit thicker if you prefer.
9. 8. Pre-heat the oven to 220C with the thermofan on - or 230C in Conventional Oven - Let the dough proof for about 30-45minutes on the baking tray before baking.
10. 9. Sprinkle the coarse salt evenly on top of the dough just before baking (be careful not to overdo the salt…). - Add any of the other ingredients, if using. - - If using cheese, place the Cheese about 10 minutes before the end of the baking time. - - Place the tray in the oven for about 25 minutes or until golden. No steam needed.
11. 10. Remove bread from the oven and let cool!

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, stews, or even sliced in half and used for sandwiches. Thanks to the ingredients, it's also naturally vegan. More from Inspired Taste Mix the yeast and water in a small bowl. In large bowl, stir together flour, salt, sugar, garlic powder, oregano, thyme, basil, and black pepper.

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