Catherine Clark’s Focaccia

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    Focaccia
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

  • About

We have several recipes for focaccia but this one, given to us by Catherine Clark, is our current favourite.

Ingredients

Step 1:

Method

Day 1

Mix the water, sourdough starter and yeast together in the bowl of a food mixer fitted with the dough hook. Set aside for 5 minutes, until the mixture looks creamy.

Add the flour and mix on a low speed for about 1 minute, until the dough starts to come together. Increase the speed to medium and continue to mix for a further 5 minutes. Cover the bowl with a clean tea