Grilled Focaccia

Italy

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

  • About

It’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t eat focaccia. In the last decade this puffy Italian flat bread has jumped from the ethnic fringe to the culinary mainstream. Focaccia is a very ancient bread; its name comes from the Latin word focus, meaning hearth. There is archeological evidence that the first focacce were baked right in or on the embers on hearthstones heated by coals. That set me thinking about cooking the dough directly on the grill. This will make a thinner foc