Easy Focaccia Recipe

Easy Focaccia Recipe

Start with 5 cups of flour and 2 teaspoons of salt. 

 

Stir two teaspoons sugar and 2 teaspoons active yeast into 1 1/2 cups of lukewarm water and wait till it gets frothy. 

 

Add a half cup of olive oil to the flour and stir then add the water, sugar and yeast.

Mix in a bowl by hand or in a mixer and knead for six or seven minutes to form a soft dough. 

 

It should look like this and should be soft and elastic.

 

Put a little oil in a bowl and roll around the dough then cover with plastic and let it rise to double. 

 

Punch it down and put 1/4 cup of olive oil in a 12 x 10 baking pan. Put the dough into the pan and spread the dough to the sides and pour a 1/4 cup of olive oil on top.

 

Push it into the edges of the pan and poke holes in it with your fingers aggressively.

 

 

Let it rise again and sprinkle with chopped rosemary.   

 

Bake at high temp 425 degrees for 20 - 22 minutes till internal temperature is 190 - 210 degrees  

Turn out of the pan and place on a cooling rack.

 

 Easy recipe, 20 - 30 minutes hands on time.