How to make focaccia at home – Italian Cuisine

Fresh focaccia from the bakery


High, soft and not too greasy. How to prepare an excellent focaccia?

There flat bread white is one of the children's favorite snacks.
It is good simple with some grains of salt on the surface and fragrant with rosemary, but also stuffed with meats and cheeses.

Buying it in the oven is a convenience, but why not try to make it at home?
Eating it hot freshly baked is a pleasure that will repay you for the effort.
What then. of certain fatigue you can not speak because the recipe of focaccia is really simple. Few ingredients and little work. The focaccia requires only a little precision and a careful selection of the raw material.

Fresh focaccia from the bakery

The recipe of Tuscan focaccia

To prepare a soft and tasty focaccia, melt 12 g of fresh brewer's yeast (about half a loaf) in a glass of water (or milk).
Then mix 500 g of 00 flour with the yeast, a pinch of sugar, another glass of water, half a glass of extra virgin olive oil and just add a little salt at the end.
Work the dough with your hands or with a planetary.
Leave it to stand for two hours inside the oven, covering the container with the transparent film.
Then roll out the dough into a well-oiled baking pan and use your fingertips to create many small dimples.
Mix water and oil in a coffee cup and brush the surface of the focaccia with this mixture.
Complete with coarse salt and cook in a hot oven at 230 degrees for about 30 minutes.
If you prefer to use yeast instead of brewer's yeast, the exact quantity is 125 g and the dough will have to leaven for longer, about 5-6 hours.

Here are some useful tips for preparing a focaccia that has nothing to envy to that of the oven.

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