Nona's courtyard cafe focaccia

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 packs Dry yeast, (1/4 ounce each)
1 cup Warm water, (100-degree)
3 cups All-purpose flour
⅓ cup Olive oil, (plus 1 tablespoon), some additional oil for pan
1 teaspoon Honey
¾ teaspoon Salt
¼ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
¼ cup Cold water
1 teaspoon Garlic, crushed
½ teaspoon Fresh thyme, or rosemary

Directions

Mix yeast with warm water and set aside a few minutes to dissolve. Add flour, 1 tablespoon olive oil, honey, salt, Parmesan cheese and cold ater.

Mix well.

Combine remaining ⅓ cup olive oil and crusted garlic in small bowl. Set aside.

Grease baking pan with olive oil. Roll out dough with rolling pin to large circle on lightly floured surface and transer to pan. Puncture dough with finders or fork and coat to of dough with garlic-olive oil mixtuer.

Sprinkle with thyme. Let dough rise aoubt 30 minutes.

While dough is rising, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake until evenly browned, 25 milnutes. Cool 30 minutes before serving.

This recipe was in Oregonian FoodDay 1/27/97. Foccaccia Wins Raves, by Rose Dosti A reader alerted us to a "better-than-average sandwich" she had at Nona's Courtyard Cafe in Ventura, Calif. "The focaccia bread was most interesting: good textured and flavorful." Typos by Brenda Adams <adamsfmle@...> Recipe by: Cooking in Ventura; Gail Hobb; badams Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #457 by Brenda Adams <adamsfmle@...> on Jan 30, 1997.

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