The Easiest, Bestest Focaccia Bread Ever!!

Manda's Note:

This focaccia bread is sooo easy and tastes wonderful! Tons of herbs and seasonings, and tons of flavor!! Great to make sandwiches with! You can alter the toppings to your liking. I have made this with caramelized onions and sliced tomato on top...Mmmmmm!!!

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 45 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon white sugar
• 1 (¼ ounce) packet active dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• ½ teaspoon dried thyme
• ½ teaspoon dried basil
• 1 dash ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 cup warm water (105-115 degrees)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese (grated)
• 1 ½ cups mozzarella cheese (shredded)

Directions:

1. Mix the yeast and water in a small bowl. Let proof for 10 minutes (until bubbles begin to form).
2. In large bowl, stir together flour, salt, sugar, garlic powder, oregano, thyme, basil, and black pepper.
3. Add the yeast mix and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and combine.
4. When dough has pulled together, turn out onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic.
5. Lightly oil a large bowl, place dough in bowl, and turn to coat with oil.
6. Cover with damp cloth and let rise in warm place 25 minutes.
7. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
8. Punch dough down, place on greased baking sheet.
9. Pat dough into 1/2-inch thick rectangle (doesn't have to be perfect).
10. Using your knuckle, make indentations in the dough about 1/2-inch apart, then prick dough with fork.
11. Brush top with olive oil, then sprinkle with Parmesan and mozzarella cheese.
12. Bake for 13-15 minutes until golden brown.

Reviews

[Lizzie-Babette]

Wow. This is incredibly easy to make and tastes delicious. It really took me just one hour to make the bread and it rose and browned beautifully. I topped my bread with the olive oil, parmesan, a bit of sea salt, a light layer of an artichoke & caper tapenade I had in the frige, and then some sliced fresh tomatoes. Really, you could go nuts with toppings on the bread and try a lot of different combinations. It's a versatile recipe that I know I'll be making again, even during the week (did I mention it only takes one hour for this bread, start to finish?!?). Thanks for posting such an easy, excellent recipe.

[Kimke]

This was VERY VERY VERY disappointing. Since typically, everything from this site that has a good rating is always great, I made this for my FIL's birthday dinner. It didn't look good and tasted a bit like a soft pretzel--NOT like foccacia. I wonder if the chef has had real foccacia before? I made 2 batches, one following directions exactly and then a second that would be a rosemary focaccia. It was easy, (used my Kitchen Aid mixer to mix up the dough) but just wasn't foccacia. I WOULD NOT make it again and will be looking for a more authenic recipe.

[zephron 2000]

I thought this recipe was surprisingly good! Instead of garlic powder, I used rosemary (because I didn't have any garlic powder) and I thought that that was something that it definitely needed anyway. Really yummy foccacia always has rosemary in it! Instead of mozzarella, I used chedder which turned out really good. I personally think it would have been nasty with mozzarella. The only thing that I was kind of disappointed about was that the outside was kind of hard and the bread was a little bit dense. But it was still really, really good!