Name: Italian Focaccia Bread recipe by Chetna Parikh at BetterButter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: Flour 500 gm; Lukewarm milk 300 ml; Dried yeast 1 3/4 tsp; Sugar 1 tsp; Olive oil 2 tbsp; Salt 2 tsp; For topping:; Fresh basil 1/4 cup; Olive Oil 1/4 cup; Rosemary 1 tsp; Chopped garlic 1tbsp

Ingredients Serving: 8

Flour 500 gm
Lukewarm milk 300 ml
Dried yeast 1 3/4 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Olive oil 2 tbsp
Salt 2 tsp
For topping:
Fresh basil 1/4 cup
Olive Oil 1/4 cup
Rosemary 1 tsp
Chopped garlic 1tbsp

Instructions

Mix the yeast along with sugar & lukewarm milk for 5 minutes.
Keep the flour aside. Pour yeast mixture in the centre of the flour, add salt, oil & make a soft dough.
Put dough in greased vessel to prove till almost double in size.
Knock down the dough with remaining flour.
Take baking tray and grease it. Roll the dough in rectangular shape. Keep in the baking tray for proving for 1 hour.
Make holes with finger brush with Olive oil, topping oil and put some black olives also.
Bake in pre heated oven at 200 C for 25 minutes.
Serve with soup or make a sandwich with it.
Topping oil:
Cook fresh basil, rosemary, garlic in 1/4 cup Olive oil for 3 minutes. Cool it down. Brush this oil on dough before baking.

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