Roberta Hall McCarron

Focaccia

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large focaccia
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Changing Tides: A Cookbook
Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

  • About

This wonderful recipe comes from Kip Preidys, who also gave me the pasta dough recipe. The key to getting it right is to treat it like you would a sourdough: add the water to the dough gradually as you knead it and allow plenty of time for it to prove.

Ingredients

  • 500 g strong flour
  • 7 g (1 sachet) instant dried yeast

Method

Preheat your oven to 200°C fan.

In a stand mixer with the dough hook fitted (or in a large bowl), mix together the flour, yeast, sugar and salt.

Add 250ml warm water and mix until fully incorporated, then mix for 20 minutes, adding another 150ml water splash by splas