Simple Potato and Rosemary Focaccia
photo by Sonya01
- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup mashed potatoes
- 1 cup strong white bread flour, sifted
- 1 (1/4 ounce) packet easyblend yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 200 ml warm water
- 1 medium potatoes or 1 large potato, scrubbed and sliced thinly
- 4 teaspoons fresh rosemary or 2 teaspoons dried rosemary
- salt and pepper
directions
- In a large bowl, combine the mashed potatoes, flour, yeast, salt and 1 tbsp of olive oil, and mix in enough water to form a soft dough (you may not need all the water).
- Knead lightly, cover with plastic wrap, and leave to rise for about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4.
- Lightly oil a large baking tray.
- Place the dough in the middle, and work it out to the edges to form a square or rectangle.
- Top the dough with the uncooked potato slices and the rosemary, season with salt and pepper, and drizzle with the remaining oil.
- Bake for 50 minutes, covering if the focaccia is getting too brown.
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Reviews
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We very much enjoyed this bread. It has a lovely soft and lightly chewy texture and the topping is yummy. We actually used a couple of pieces of this under some scrambled ground beef mixed with leftover beef gravy and made it tonight's main meal with a side salad. Looking to enjoying the rest of it. Made for For Your Consideration. :D
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I could not sleep last night so I started making this at around 4AM. Even though I was not quite with it, I could not screw this up. Instead of pulling out the mandoline, I used the vegetable peeler to peel off strips of potato. These worked beautifully with the fresh rosemary and I also added some fresh lemon thyme. I made half the recipe, which worked perfectly in my tabletop convection oven. Wonderful with my scrambled eggs this morning.
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GREAT TASTING FOCACCIA, & I thoroughly enjoyed making your recipe! The only change I made was to use lemon pepper instead of the usual S&P, but that's no biggie! This was made just for the 2 of us, but another time I'd love to share this with company ~ Definitely a keeper recipe! [Made & reviewed for the VIP chef in the Vegetarian/Vegan Recipe Swap 19]
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This was a nice and different focaccia bread. The potato and rosemary combination is delicious and adds a nice touch to the bread. I only had to use about half of the water specified. I did have to cover the bread after about 30 minutes as it was getting quite brown, but it still cooked up fine. Thanks for posting this recipe!
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