High Hydration No-Knead Focaccia Bread Recipe

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High Hydration No-Knead Focaccia Bread Recipe delivers an airy, soft crumb and crisp edge with minimal effort, perfect for beginners.

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 40

Resting time 14

Course Bread

Cuisine Italian

Servings 625 grams

Take flour, salt, sugar, mix herbs and yeast in a bowl. Mix.
Add warm water and olive oil.
Mix it well giving 8 to 10 folds but don't overdo.
Cover the bowl with cling film or tight lid. We shifted the dough in another greased bowl having an airtight lid.
Leave the dough on shelf (If winters) or in refrigerator (if summers) overnight. It's winters here with 8 to 10°C temperature on the relevant night, so we left the dough on the kitchen shelf.
Next morning the dough will double in size. In case you had left in refrigerator, let the dough come to room temperature.
Transfer the dough in generously greased baking dish and spread all over. If you dough is less hydrated, you have to oil your fingers and then spread the dough to all the sides of dish. As our dough was highly hydrated, spatula was enough to spread the dough.
Cover the dish and again leave it for 2nd proofing for 2 hours. However timing may vary from weather to weather.
Dough is puffed up again.
Poke some dents on all over the dough with oiled fingers. As our dough is highly hydrated, the dents may not be legible.
Drop some olive oil over the dough.
Now it's time to decorate. We have used dill leaves, cherry tomatoes and pineapple. However it is not about recipe but only about creativity how you decorate it.
Bake in preheated oven @200°C for 35-40 minutes or until bread turns brown and crisp.
Take the bread out of oven, let it cool down completely.
Cut into slices and enjoy.

We have used instant yeast which requires no prior activation and that is why it is added directly into the flour. But in case you are using active yeast, first activate it by dissolving it into warm water and sugar and wait for 10 minutes.
You can make the bread more flavourful by adding red chilli flakes, black pepper powder and oregano into it while mixing.
It's not that you cannot use any other oil other than olive, but it is only the only the olive oil which gives you the exact authentic taste of focaccia bread.
We have made the bread with high hydration' that is why added 2 cups of water for 3 cups of flour. But you can reduce the quantity of water by 3-4 tablespoons with no issues. High hydrated bread turns more soft and fluffy.
To decorate the bread, you can use Cherry tomatoes, bell peppers (3 colours), red onions, olives, rosemary, thyme, basil, spinach leaves, coriander leaves, carrot ribbons, beetroot slices, capers, spring onions, chilli slices, sesame seeds, nigella seeds, garlic slices, mushroom slices, parsley and zucchini slices. The options are endless.

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