Name: Super-easy Focaccia Bread, No-Knead
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: Flour; yeast; water; sugar; salt; olive oil; butter; garlic; rosemary

Focaccia is a type of Italian flat bread infused with olive oil; it has crisp outside and soft inside which is very similar to pizza without topping; in some places, it is also called as pizza bianca, i.e., white pizza. Focaccia can be in round, rectangular, or square shape. It is perfect to serve as side with soups, stews or other dishes. You can also slice the focaccia in half and make sandwiches.

It is super-easy and simple to make focaccia. You won't fail even you are not familiar with bread making. There is no need to knead at all, simply mix the ingredients to get the dough, proof the dough, then bake it.

ingredients

All purpose flour: 512g (4cups)
Active dry yeast: 8g
Water: 455g (2cups)
Sugar: 1tsp
Salt: 2tsp
Olive oil: 4tbsp+2tbsp
Butter: 2tbsp
Garlic: 3cloves
Fresh rosemary: a pinch (optional)

Special tool: 9″by13″ baking pan

Note: the above ingredients can make one 9″by13″ bread.

instructions

Prepare the dough:
In a large mixing bowl, prepare 2cups of warm water, add 1tsp sugar, 2tsp salt, and 8g active dry yeast.
Add 4cups all purpose flour, use a silicone spatula to mix until a shaggy dough forms.

Pour 4tbsp olive oil onto the wet dough, use hand to combine olive oil with the dough.

Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, let it rise at room temperature until doubled in size. It takes about 3-4hours.

Prepare the bread:
Grease the 9″by13″ baking pan with butter, pour 1tbsp olive oil onto the pan.
Deflate the rised dough, use both hands to gather the dough from edges of the bowl, lift up and over into the center of the bowl. Then transfer the deflated dough into the baking pan.

Flatten the dough, use both hands to roughly stretch out the dough in the baking pan, no need to have perfect flattened dough.
Let the dough rise for 2nd time for at least 1hours. The dough should fill up the baking pan. To check if the dough is ready, use finger to poke it, it should spring back slowly. If it springs back too quick, the dough is not ready yet.

Pour 1tbsp olive oil onto the dough.
Dimple the dough: use fingers to press straight down to create deep dimples on the bread (similar to play piano). You should see some big bubbles.

Bake the bread:
Sprinkle some salt and rosemary, skip rosemary if not available.
Bake at 425°F for 25mins.

Garlic rosemary butter brushing (optional):
Chop 3cloves of garlic and a pinch of rosemary.
Melt 2tbsp butter on a small pan over medium heat.
Add chopped garlic and rosemary into melted butter, cook until garlic is nicely roasted.

Use silicone brush to brush garlic rosemary butter over focaccia surface.
Cut focaccia into small rectangular or square for serving.

Super-easy Focaccia Bread, No-Knead

Super-easy Focaccia Bread, No-Knead

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