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Sourdough Focaccia

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14 h 15 min

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I'm often asked how to start with baking. And even though baking seems like an impossible kitchen task, it's not such a crazy science as everyone makes it out to be. When I think about an easy, versatile bread recipe to recommend starting with, it's focaccia. It's a very forgiving dough, and considering it's baked in a tray, you can't go wrong. This spongy bread is both fun to make and to eat, with its thin crispy crust and soft chewy crumb. Here, I'm using a sourdough starter and a kick of dry yeast, which ensures good fermentation for that perfect texture. You can top it with whatever you want or leave it plain to be a versatile base for any sandwich you want to make for guests or just for yourself. It's fine!

1 foccacium

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1 foccacium

US

original

metric

Ingredients

450 gr bread flour

50 gr whole wheat flour

420 gr lukewarm water

100 gr sourdough starter

15 gr extra virgin olive oil

15 gr Atlantic sea salt

of dry yeast

Olive oil (for shaping and oiling the pan)

Tools

Baking tray 9X13 inches

Directions

Step 1

Autolysis: In a bowl, mix the flour and water (apart from 50 gr of water which we will use later on) until consolidation. Leave to rest for an hour covered with a plastic wrap.

450 gr bread flour

50 gr whole wheat flour

370 gr lukewarm water

Step 2

Add the sourdough starter and a pinch of dry yeast, and fold it in the dough until the starter has incorporated in the dough. Add the salt and water from step 1 and knead until water and salt are incorporated into the dough.

100 gr sourdough starter

of dry yeast

15 gr Atlantic sea salt

50 gr lukewarm water

Step 3

Add the olive oil and knead until incorporated. Folds on the side of the bowl create a beautiful, smooth side facing up. Cover with a plastic wrap and let the dough to rest for half an hour.

15 gr extra virgin olive oil

Step 4

From this moment, every 30 minutes, we will fold the dough. Between the folds cover the dough with a plastic wrap.

Step 5

After 4 folds, cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and place in the fridge overnight.

Step 6

The day after, oil the baking tray you will use for baking the focaccia with olive oil. Take the dough out from the fridge and let it rest in the bowl for 30 minutes before starting working on it.

Olive oil (for shaping and oiling the pan)

Step 7

Wet your hands and gently transfer the dough to the baking pan, with the beautiful side facing up. Cover and leave for half an hour.

Step 8

After resting, lightly stretch the dough towards the corners of the tray, not pushing it, if it returns slightly to the center- let it rest for a couple of minutes and stretch again.

Step 9

After the dough has spread on the entire tray, cover the dough and let it rest until it nearly doubles its volume. It will take a while, but let her grow on her own.

Step 10

Half an hour before the dough finished proofing, when it seems to almost double in volume, preheat oven to 450F or 230C.

Step 11

After the focaccia has proofed, oil your hands and drizzle olive oil generously on top of the dough. Make holes in the dough with your fingers. Pay attention! We want to get the fingers to the bottom of the dough, to prevent it from rising at these wholes we did.

Olive oil (for shaping and oiling the pan)

Step 12

Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Step 13

Remove from the pan and eat it all!

Step 14

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Mark Schenthal

Mar 26 2025

Checking out your recipes

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Stephanie Gilquist

Mar 26 2025

Love your recipes!

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Noti Krasniqi

Mar 14 2025

Dude u save me! I love ur stuff!

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andreykaplun@gmail.com

Mar 10 2025

Amazing recipes, and videos. Question: Where do I get good sourdough starter?

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Neiji

Mar 07 2025

Thanks for an amazing work !!

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Gabriel

Feb 21 2025

Quiero que me enseñe a hacer la mejor Focaccia del mundo

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Quan

Jan 08 2025

if i want a normal foccacia, can i just remove the sourdough from the recipe ?

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Hallie Pariente

Jan 07 2025

Magniv!!! 🪬🪬🪬

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Leila Gardner

Dec 22 2024

Yay

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Marvin Kelley

Dec 07 2024

I enjoy watching your videos

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Gaz

Aug 12 2024

Amazing

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Yoko Maeda

Aug 06 2024

Love these recipes

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Martin Petran

Jul 22 2024

Boooom

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Tal Heinrich

Jul 21 2024

I love your content!

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Marion

Jun 19 2024

I make this all the time, it's the best. (sprinkle with flakey sea salt on top)

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Amaal

Jun 13 2024

Thank you very much. All the ingredients and steps are clearly attached. I will make them 👍🏼

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Casey

Jun 10 2024

Thank you for the recipe

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Juri Völlm

May 26 2024

Perfect recepie

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Noora

May 13 2024

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Johnny pugsley

Apr 30 2024

👍🏻

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Foodlover

Apr 17 2024

😋

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Foodlover

Apr 17 2024

🫠Delish

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Merav

Apr 14 2024

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Stepan Lopachuk

Apr 11 2024

Yaaaass

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Ryan

Apr 09 2024

Love your recipes

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Franklin

Apr 09 2024

Why the "pinch" of yeast though? Can we really still call it sourdough? Sure the flavor might be there from the overnight cold proof, but that long fermentation should also allow this recipe to work sans yeast (commercial yeast) and only sourdough (natural yeast). With how long your recipe takes you shouldn't need the yeast if your sourdough starter is accurately active and you have a correct ratio, which we see is 20%. It looks great, but lets teach people how to use sourdough without the assistance of yeast.

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Bradley Green

Apr 09 2024

Epic

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Vivían Bonomi Cariello

Apr 08 2024

Your focaccia looks amazing

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Denize Neri

Apr 08 2024

I love your recepes, and I would like to learn more from you

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