Tricolor focaccia
Focaccia, or bread, is an Italian specialty, and one way of making it is to stuff it with ingredients that change depending on the region in which it is made. There are such cakes in our traditional cuisine as well, and one of the most famous is Viška pogača. The focaccia I made today is one of the Italian variants, made from foods that Italians (and neither do I;))) can't do: tomatoes (tomatoes), arugula (rucola), olive oil (olio d'oliva), basil basilico) and mozzarella.
Preparation steps
- Dough:
- Mix flour and salt. Mix fresh yeast with a little lukewarm water and half a teaspoon of sugar, put it in a hole in the flour, sprinkle with a little flour and leave for about 15 minutes for the yeast to rise.
- Add olive oil and knead a smooth dough. Cover and let rise for half an hour to an hour.
- Tomato salsa:
- Cut the onion into rings and put to simmer in olive oil. Peel a squash, grate it and chop it in half (if you want to shorten the job, use canned tomatoes) and add to the onion. Add the parsley, salt and to taste and simmer until the tomatoes are completely soft and the mixture becomes more or less homogeneous. Towards the end, add a lot of basil (dry or fresh).
- Other:
- When the dough rises, knead it and divide it into larger and smaller parts. Roll out most of it and place it on an oiled and floured baking sheet so that the edges of the dough come out of the baking sheet. Arrange the salsa, washed arugula and mozzarella on the dough, sprinkle with olive oil and sprinkle with basil.
- Roll out a small part of the dough and cover the baking tray, so that the edges come out, and together with the lower dough, wrap the edges in the baking tray. Pierce in several places and grease with olive oil.
- Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour to 40 minutes, remove from the oven, cover with a dry cloth and allow to cool.
- Note: Personally, I prefer thinner or ‘less bready’ dough, to which these measures correspond. If you want the dough to be thicker, make it from 1 pound of flour. In the stuffing you can change the amount to suit you!
- procedure in collage
- Trixie tried it
