focaccia bread recipe

A super simple focaccia bread recipe that comes together quickly that you can customize with your favorite toppings.

Easy Focaccia Recipe

flour

Tablespoon rapid rise yeast

water

salt

sugar

olive oil, divided

In a large bowl mix flour and yeast.

Stir hot water, salt, and sugar together in...

Stir hot water, salt, and sugar together in a glass measuring cup until salt and sugar dissolve. Add 1/2 cup olive oil to hot water mixture and pour everything into the bowl with the flour and yeast.

Mix everything together with your hands until all...

Mix everything together with your hands until all dried bits of flour are incorporated into one dough ball.

Lightly sprinkle countertop with flour. Knead dough 40...

Lightly sprinkle countertop with flour. Knead dough 40 times, adding more flour if necessary. Grease bowl with 1 teaspoon olive oil, place dough ball into bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for one hour.

Preheat oven to 425ºF.

When one hour is up, pour half of...

When one hour is up, pour half of remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil onto a baking sheet. Punch down dough ball and place on sheet, moving around to grease underside with olive oil. Drizzle top of dough with remaining oil and spread out gently with hands to a thickness of 1-inch.

Press on dough hard enough with your fingers...

Press on dough hard enough with your fingers to leave imprints all over. Add focaccia toppings, and bake 23-25 minutes, or until golden.

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An Easy Focaccia Bread Recipe where all you need is (a lot of) olive oil, some focaccia toppings, one hour to rise, and 25 minutes to bake.

Easy Focaccia Bread Recipe

This fluffy focaccia bread is covered in a delicious herbed olive oil. This bread pairs perfectly with so many main course recipes. Enjoy!

Focaccia Bread

olive oil

herbs de provence

pepper

garlic

bread flour (see note

instant yeast

olive oil (for

In a small sauce pan add the olive oil and salt. Stir over medium-low heat until it reaches 100-110°F. Add the dried herbs, pepper, and garlic and stir to combine. Remove from heat and let the mixture steep while you make the focaccia dough. 

Herb Oil

In the bowl of a stand mixer add the bread flour, salt, and yeast. Whisk to combine. Next add the olive oil and water. Mix with the paddle attachment until the ingredients form into a sticky ball. Change to the dough hook and mix on medium speed for 5 minutes, or as long as it takes to form a tacky ball. The dough should clear the bottom and sides of the bowl. If yours doesn’t clear the sides of the bowl, add a tablespoon of flour at a time until the dough does so. IF by chance the dough sticks to the bottom of the bowl a little bit, that’s ok. We just don’t want a dry dough. (My dough always cleans the sides and bottom of the bowl).

Transfer the dough to a floured work surface. Pat the dough into a rectangle. Grab both ends and stretch the dough until it’s twice it’s size. Fold it letter style, over itself to return the dough back to a rectangular shape. Spritz the top of the dough with olive oil or nonstick cooking spray. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let rest for 15 minutes. 

Stretch and fold the dough again. Spritz the dough with nonstick cooking spray or olive oil, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 15 more minutes. 

One last time, stretch and fold the dough again. Spritz the dough with nonstick cooking spray or olive oil, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 30 more minutes. The dough should rise slightly during this time (but won’t double in size). 

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread the ¼ cup of olive oil over the parchment (use your hands or a pastry brush), making sure the olive oil covers the entire surface. 

Transfer the dough to the baking sheet. Spoon half of the herb oil over the dough. 

Using your fingertips, dimple the dough, gently inching it to the a majority of the pan. The dough doesn’t have to fit into the corners at this time. Add more herb oil as needed to the top of the dough. You want the entire surface coated in oil. 

Cover the pan with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for 2 hours (or overnight if you wish) see note #2. 

Remove from the fridge. Drizzle remaining herb oil over the dough and dimple again. The dough should go to the sides and corners of the pan. Loosely cover with the plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 1 hour or until doubled in size. 

See note #3. About 30 minutes into the proofing, preheat the oven to 500°F. 

When ready to bake, remove the plastic wrap, place the dough in the oven and immediately turn the oven to 450°F. Bake for 10 minutes. Then, rotate the pan 180° and bake an additional 5-8 minutes or until the top is lightly golden brown. 

Remove from the oven and transfer the bread to a cooling wrack. Let cool for 15 minutes before slicing and servings. 

Dough

This olive and rosemary focaccia recipe is the perfect bread to make and pull out of the freezer when you&#8217;re entertaining. Or, if you&#8217;re not sure about this one, we&#8217;ve got an excellent spring onion focaccia bread too.

Olive and rosemary focaccia

strong plain flour,

caster sugar

tbsp extra-virgin olive oil,

sachets fast-action dried yeast

semi-dried tomatoes

mixed olives, pitted

rosemary leaves

garlic cloves, thinly sliced

Mix the flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl, and make a well in the centre. Pour in 1 tbsp of the extra-virgin olive oil. Dissolve the yeast in 300ml lukewarm water, pour into the well and quickly mix to a soft dough, adding a splash more warm water if needed. Add the chopped semi-dried tomatoes and knead the dough, on a lightly floured surface, for 10 minutes until smooth and elastic. Shape into a round and place in a lightly oiled bowl. Cover the dough with oiled cling film and leave in a warm place for 45 minutes until it has doubled in size.

Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan200°C/gas 7. Carefully place the dough on a lightly floured baking sheet and roll it out into a large oval (about 35cm x 23cm). Press your fingers all over the dough to make dimples and scatter with the mixed olives, rosemary and garlic. Drizzle with another 1 tbsp of the oil and scatter with sea salt. Cover loosely with lightly oiled cling film and leave to rise for 30 minutes until puffed and doubled in size once more.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until risen and golden brown. Cool completely, wrap well in baking paper and cling film and freeze for up to 3 months.

Reheat from frozen, wrapped in foil, for about 20 minutes at 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6, until warmed through. Drizzle the remaining olive oil over the top.

Focaccia is a great bread that everyone should know how to make.A couple of notes on this focaccia. I like using a fairly high hydration dough. For this recipe, my water amount is 75% of the flour.  This leads to focaccia with a thin, but really crisp crust and a soft interior with fairly large holes inside, this texture and size I find perfect for making sandwiches with. While the end product I prefer much more, a high hydration dough will naturally be really sticky and can be annoying to work with if you aren't used to it but don't worry I'll show you how.

How to make Focaccia

g Instant Yeast

Flour

Salt

g Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Rosemary

Chives

Mix the ingredients

Add the yeast to the warm water along with a spoonful of the flour. Stir until dissolved. Let stand for 5-10 minutes until a light foam surfaces and little bubbles are visible. Note: Proofing is done to test the viability of the yeast. If there is no foam surface or little bubbles the yeast is likely dead and should be discarded for new yeast.  Meanwhile, add the flour, and salt to a large mixing bowl. Once the yeast is proofed, pour in the mixture and mix the dough with your hands until no dry flour remains in the bowl and a cohesive mass forms. The dough will be very sticky. Pour the olive oil over the dough, work together until the oil is absorbed. Cover and let rest for 20 minutes.

Bulk Fermentation + Gluten Development

Once rested, perform a stretch and fold by grabbing a corner of the dough in the bowl, lift straight up to stretch the dough as high as it will go without tearing and fold over to the other side. Rotate the bowl and perform three more reps of stretch and folds. Once folded, turn the dough over onto itself, cover and let rest another 25-30 minutes. This is one set of a stretch and fold, perform 3 more sets with 25-30 minutes rest in between.  For each stretch and fold set, the dough should feel more elastic and stretch further without tearing with some air bubbles present

Proofing (Second Ferment)

Drizzle olive oil into a 9x13 baking pan until the bottom is covered. After the last stretch and fold, turn the focaccia dough into the pan and gently work it to the edges. Note: If the dough is springing back from the edges, cover and let rest for 15-20 minutes before gently working to the edges.  Cover the pan and let the focaccia proof for 45-60 minutes. At the end of proofing, the dough should be well risen and puffy with gas bubbles. Preheat the oven to 450 F.

Dimple + Add Toppings

Dimple the proofed dough with wet fingers by gently pushing to the bottom of the pan, but do not accidentally go through the dough. For me, I like lots of dimples and run over the dough 2-3 times.  Whisk the olive oil and water together with a fork until it emulsifies, about 2-3 minutes. Pour the mixture over the focaccia where it will pool into the dimples.  Sprinkle flaky salt and fresh herbs over the top. If using other toppings like grape tomatoes, or olives, add them now too and gently press into the dough. Note: This turns into a great pizza with sauce, cheese and anything else you may have in the fridge.

Bake

Place on the middle rack of the 450 F oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden on top. Let rest under a cloth on a wire rack for 5 minutes before slicing into hunks of focaccia  Serve as is, or slice in half for creating sandwiches.

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