Focaccia (Classic)

Name: Focaccia (Classic)
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 2 h 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500g strong white flour; 7g dried yeast; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tsp salt; 350ml warm water; 4 tbsp olive oil plus extra; sea salt flakes generous; 2 sprigs fresh rosemary

A dimpled, olive oil-drenched Italian-British flatbread with sea salt and rosemary. Drizzling oil into the dimples both before and after pressing them in gives focaccia its glistening, crisp-bottomed crust.

Total time

125 min

Prep

100 min

Cook

25 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

British

vegetarianvegan

Ingredients

500gstrong white flour

7gdried yeast

1 tspsugar

1 tspsalt

350mlwarm water

4 tbspolive oil plus extra

sea salt flakesgenerous

2 sprigsfresh rosemary

Instructions

Mix flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water and 2 tbsp oil. Knead 8 minutes. Rest 1 hour.

Press into an oiled deep tray. Drizzle with more oil. Rest 30 minutes.

Dimple aggressively with fingers. Drizzle with more oil.

Press rosemary into dimples. Scatter sea salt.

Bake at 220°C for 20-25 minutes.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

Fat

0.7g

Carbs

3.8g

Fiber

1.9g

Sodium

481mg

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