Focaccia Bread (#31)

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and I have the day off.  So I decided to make some focaccia bread.  Actually, I had asked my YD what kind of bread to make and she suggested this (as well as a ham and cheese bread).

Here's the recipe I used from tasty.co.

Ingredients:

Dough

• 1 cup warm water
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 ⅓ cups flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons yeast

Toppings

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves removed
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste

The directions said to mix all the dough ingredients together.  I activated the yeast in the warm water first.

I wasn't sure the yeast was activated but I went ahead and added the other ingredients.  The directions said to knead for 15 minutes -- I did it for only five.

I put the bowl in the slightly heated oven for 1 hour.

and it definitely doubled (so the yeast was definitely activated).

We didn't have a cast iron frying pan, so I used the creuset dutch oven.

After sitting for 20 minutes, I added the olive oil, rosemary, salt and pepper.

Cooked for 30 minutes (at 20 it didn't look done).

It turned out great -- very tasty with either butter of oil/vinegar.