Fugassa co-e Porpe [in the Levante] (Focaccia con le Olive) Fugassa co-a Murcia [in the Ponente]

Focaccia with Olives

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    focaccia
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

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Ingredients

  • 1 basic focaccia recipe
  • cups/7 ounces/200

Method

Drain and pit all but 20 of the olives, and chop them coarsely. Prepare the focaccia dough as indicated in the recipe. Before kneading, add the chopped olives (or the olive paste) to the well of the dough and knead thoroughly. After placing the dough in the pan, lodge the remaining 20 olives (which you may pit if you wish) in the top of the focaccia dough and bake normally, brushing with oil as