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Easy Rosemary Focaccia Bread

June 28, 2020 by Tina Verrelli 3 Comments
Modified February 18, 2021 at 2:47 pm

Focaccia bread in 13 x 9 x 2 metal pan topped with rosemary and coarse salt, slices cut and stacked

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Golden Brown, Crispy Crust…

Focaccia bread is one of our favorites! The simple dough is flavored with olive oil and salt. Before baking it’s also drizzled with more olive oil – gives the baked bread a delicious crispy crust.

overhead photo of rosemary focaccia bread in 13 x 9 metal baking pan, topped with rosemary

I like to sprinkle mine with some rosemary and coarse flaky salt before baking – more of a simple preparation. I’m sure you’ve seen all kinds of highly decorated focaccia loaves on the internet, they’re beautiful! – but personally, I don’t like to add too many toppings – wouldn’t want to interfere with the crust getting nice and crispy.

crunch golden brown bottom of focaccia bread

How Do You Enjoy Your Focaccia?

Focaccia bread is the perfect accompaniment to pretty much any meal! It doesn’t really need butter as it’s rich and delicious with the added olive oil. We love it with grilled meals, caprese salad and pretty much any soup or saucy dish you can dunk it into!

Focaccia Makes Great Panini Sandwiches!

It also makes awesome panini sandwiches. Just slice your focaccia bread in half horizontally, layer in your favorite fillings and pop it in your panini press or griddle. (No need to brush with additional oil – it crisps up beautifully.) Lots of times we’ll eat half the loaf with dinner one night and have panini sandwiches the next night!

close up focaccia bread, stacked pieces, with fresh rosemary and coarse salt

How Do You Make Focaccia Bread?

Gather Dry & Wet Ingredients:

If you have a digital kitchen scale, I recommend weighing your flour – as it’s hard to be consistently accurate when measuring with a measuring cup. Stir together your dry ingredients. Add your warm water/oil mixture (not over 110 degrees F.)

Mix, Knead & Rise:

Knead for about 5 minutes on speed 2. It will be a sticky/wet mixture, almost like a thick batter. It won’t form a ball and “clean the sides of the bowl” like some pizza and bread dough recipes. It reminds me a lot of the texture of ciabatta dough.

Let rise either on the counter or for several hours/overnight. Transfer to an oiled pan and let rise again. It will form lots of yummy bubbles.

Rise Again, Top & Bake!

Transfer the dough to a greased baking pan and let rise until doubled. Look at that gorgeous holey, almost lava-like texture with all those gluten strands!

Gently poke your fingers (dampened or oiled hands help with sticking) into the dough before baking, then drizzle with oil and sprinkle on toppings! Pop in the oven and soon you’ll be enjoying your delicious, golden brown and crispy focaccia bread!

Watch my Step-By-Step Focaccia Bread VIDEO!
Focaccia bread in 13 x 9 x 2 metal pan topped with rosemary and coarse salt, slices cut and stacked

Focaccia Bread

Focaccia bread is one of our favorites! The simple dough is flavored with olive oil and salt. Before baking it's also drizzled with more olive oil - gives the baked bread a delicious crispy crust.
Tina Verrelli - epicuricloud.com
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Course: Bread
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: bread, focaccia, olive oil, rosemary, yeast dough
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 47 minutes
Servings: 12 servings

Equipment

  • stand mixer

Ingredients

  • 569 grams (4 cups) bread flour
  • 2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
  • 1 envelope (2 1/4 teaspoons) instant/rapid rise yeast
  • 2 cups warm water not over 110 degrees
  • 6 tablespoons olive oil divided, plus more for greasing bowl
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary
  • flaky or coarse salt for sprinkling optional

Instructions 

Mix and Knead the Dough:

  • I use my stand mixer with dough hook to knead this dough. It's a very wet dough, to knead by hand you'd need to keep scraping and turning over the dough in a mixing bowl.
  • Combine flour, salt and yeast in mixing bowl. Stir to combine.
  • Combine warm water and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a liquid measuring cup. While the mixer is running on low speed, drizzle in the water mixture evenly. Once all is drizzled in, stop and scrape the bowl to help bring the mixture together.
  • Knead on speed 2 for 5 minutes. The dough will be wet and sticky (almost like a thick batter), it won't come together into a ball like some pizza and bread doughs. (refer to photos in article.) If it seems thinner than a thick batter, sprinkle in a tablespoon or so of additional flour. Also, if you use all-purpose instead of bread flour, you may need to add more flour.

First Rise:

  • Transfer kneaded dough to a greased bowl, cover with greased plastic wrap and set out at room temperature to rise until doubled in size - about 1 hour. You can alternatively, place in the refrigerator for 4 hours - to overnight to rise.

Second Rise:

  • Grease a 13 x 9 x 2" metal baking pan* with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Use a spatula or bowl scraper to scrape the dough from the bowl into the pan. It will almost pour out and be sticky. With damp/oiled spatula or hands spread the dough out into the pan. Be somewhat gentle so you don't deflate all the air bubbles. Cover with greased plastic wrap and set out at room temperature until it doubles in size (and forms lots of bubbles) - about 1 hour.

Bake:

  • While dough is rising, Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. With greased or damp hands, use your fingers to poke some holes in the dough - it will be sticky and deflate a little bit. Drizzle 2 tablespoons olive oil evenly over the dough - it will pool in the indentations you created with your fingers. Sprinkle with rosemary and coarse/flaky salt**. Bake for about 30 minutes or until deep golden brown.
  • Let cool in pan for about 10 minutes, then remove to cutting board to cool about 10 minutes more before cutting. The bread develops a nice crunchy crust, so cutting with a sharp bread knife is recommended.

Video

Notes

*Baking Pan: I prefer a metal baking pan for this bread, for some reason it really sticks to glass baking dishes.  You can alternatively bake in 2 nine-inch square or round pans.
**Coarse Flaky Salt:  If you sprinkle the top of the bread with salt before baking, the salt with tend to melt into the focaccia after the first day - making the top a little damp where the salt was - kind of like on a soft pretzel.  When I want to freeze the loaf of part of the loaf, I hold off on the salt.  If we're going to eat the same day, then I salt it.
Storage/Make-Ahead/Freezing:  Since this dough has oil in the batter, it doesn't dry out as quickly as some other breads.  It lasts on the counter for a couple days.  It also freezes well after baking.  Sometimes we'll eat half and freeze half.  I usually omit the sprinkling of the salt on top if I want to freeze (see note above.)  This bread also makes great panini sandwiches - which is great to make with any leftover focaccia bread.  Just cut in half horizontally, fill and grill with your panini press.

Nutrition (approx. data estimated via online nutritional calculator.)

Calories: 234kcal (12%) | Carbohydrates: 34g (11%) | Protein: 6g (12%) | Fat: 8g (12%) | Saturated Fat: 1g (6%) | Sodium: 391mg (17%) | Potassium: 47mg (1%) | Fiber: 1g (4%) | Sugar: 1g (1%) | Vitamin A: 5IU | Calcium: 8mg (1%) | Iron: 1mg (6%)
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  1. Claire

    March 4, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    Perfectly crispy ! Love this recipe

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  2. Krissy McCutcheon

    January 27, 2022 at 10:03 am

    I love your bread recipes!

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    • Christina Verrelli

      February 1, 2022 at 2:56 pm

      Thanks Krissy! ( :

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