GloooRecipes

Focaccia

Ingredients

  • 420ml Warm Water
  • 1 tsp Instant Yeast
  • 1 tsp Honey
  • 1 Tbsp Olive oil + more for topping
  • 2 tsp white Sugar
  • 500g Plain white Bread Flour
  • 8g Salt + more for topping
  • Topping - (Always flake salt and oil) olives, rosemary, thyme or whatever takes your fancy

Method

  1. Whisk warm water, yeast, honey, olive oil and sugar together
  2. Stir in flour, the dough will be loose and raggedy
  3. Cover the dough and leave for 10 minutes to sit
  4. Add 8g of salt and with wet hands stretch and fold the dough, should start to feel smoother
  5. Rest dough for 10 minutes
  6. Stretch and fold again
  7. Placing the dough upside down in the bowl and cover with olive oil and cling wrap, place in the fridge to rise for 1 hour
  8. Remove the dough from the fridge and place in a very well oiled and lined with baking paper baking tray or rectangle casserole pan
  9. Fold the sides of the dough in to meet in the middle and flip it. The seams should now be underneath the dough. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 2 hours
  10. At the 1.5hr mark, pre-heat the oven to 220c
  11. With oily hands gentle stretch the dough out the edges of the pan. You should have large bubbles and stretchy malleable dough by now
  12. Add oil to surface of the dough and press your fingers into the dough just until the touch the bottom but done go through! make evenish holes all across the dough
  13. Place on toppings and add salt
  14. Bake for 18-20 minutes on the lowest rack at 220c