Grandma's focaccia

Name: Grandma's focaccia
Total time: 10800 s
Yield: 8 to 10 people
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 350 g plain flour; 250 g fine semolina; 390 ml warm water; 10 g salt; 5 g sugar; 1 potato mashed (150g); 12 g fresh yeast or 7 g dried yeast; Extra virgin olive oil; Green olives (to taste); 800 g fresh plum tomato; Origano

Roberto @roberto1987

Birmingham

This recipe is one of the recipes my grandmother used to do every week. It is a traditional focaccia bread from Bari, different from any focaccia you will ever try, crispy on the outside and soft and spongy on the inside. This recipe will produce 2 round focaccias of 32cm and will require quite a bit of good quality extra virgin olive oil. #mycookbook

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Ingredients

1 hr + 2 hr

8 to 10 people

350 gplain flour
250 gfine semolina
390 mlwarm water
10 gsalt
5 gsugar
1potato mashed (150g)
12 gfresh yeast or 7 g dried yeast
Extra virgin olive oil
Green olives (to taste)
800 gfresh plum tomato
Origano

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Steps

1 hr + 2 hr

1

Cook and mash the potato and leave it to cool. Once cooled down, start working on the activation of the yeast. Mix the yeast in a little bit of water with some sugar. When the yeast is active add it to the flour, semolina, potato and 250 ml of water in a large bowl. Once all the ingredients are mixed, add the salt. Once combined and you have produced a nice dough, add two spoons of olive oil and keep working the dough.
2

At this point you should get a very elastic and hydrated dough. Split the mix in two and put it on two different oven trays which have been brushed with two spoons of olive oil each. Leave them to rise in a warm place for 2 hours.
3

After 2 hours flip the dough into 2 round focaccia trays which have been brushed with another two spoons of oil (I did not have them so I used square aluminium trays, they work fine also).
4

With your finger push down being careful not to push the air out of the dough.
5

Break the tomatoes on the top of the focaccia and pus them on the top of the focaccia, add olives, 4 spoons of olive oil, salt and origano. Cook on a preheated oven at 250 degrees for about 25-30 mins.
6

The result will be sensational. Just make sure you use great quality ingredients, especially the olive oil.