This thin rosemary focaccia is excellent eaten hot, just out of the oven. Can be enjoyed by itself, with salad, or with a platter of cheeses and salumi.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of bread flour
- 1 cup of all purpose flour
- 1 cup of water
- 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp of dry yeast
- 1 tsp of salt
- for the topping: extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, rosemary
In a bowl, mix the bread flour with the all purpose flour.
Use an electric mixer to knead the dough.
Pour half of the flour in the mixer’s bowl.
Add mostof the water keeping 1/3 of a glass aside.
Warm slightly the water kept in the glass and use it to melt the yeast. Add the melted yeast into the mixer’s bowl.
Add the olive oil.
Mix well until all ingredients are smoothly mixed.
Add the salt to the remaining flour and slowly add it into the mixer’s bowl as it is kneading the dough.
When all of the flour is incorporated into the dough, let the mixer knead the dough for 10 more minutes.
Transfer the dough in a glass or plastic bowl, cover with clear plastic wrap, and let it rise in a warm place for 60 minutes. I put it inside the oven turned off with the oven light turned on. The dough should be more than doubled in volume. Take it out of the oven.
Position a pizza stone in the lower part of the oven, on the second rack from the bottom.
Heat the oven to 500F (260 Celsius), use both the upper and lower heat if possible.
Roll less than a quarter of the dough into a very thin (1/8″) rectangle about 16″x11″.
Spread extra virgin olive oil on the thin focaccia ( be generous), sprinkle with sea salt and rosemary leaves.
When the oven is hot put the focaccia on the pizza stone and bake for 3 minutes.
Enjoy!
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