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Thin Focaccia topped with Cheese, sun-dried Tomatoes & Herbs

by Micaela Harrasser

This simple yet rich focaccia is your ultimate snack! Topped with cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and herbs, it’s so tasty it uplevels your focaccia game!
One good thing about this focaccia recipe is the fact that the focaccia dough, being quite thin, only requires one hour resting/proofing time. This means it’s way quicker than your average focaccia!
Another great thing about this recipe is that it’s highly customizable. Here I used goat’s cheese and dill – a great combo but I am aware not everyone is fond of those strong flavors!

Thin Focaccia topped with Cheese, sun-dried Tomatoes & Herbs

Serves: 6x as side Prep Time: Cooking Time: Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

For a 20x20cm baking tray:

  • 500g flour (I used 400g all-purpose and 100g spelt)
  • 8g active dry yeast
  • 280ml water
  • 5g sea salt
  • 200g goat's cheese
  • hard cheese (like parmigiano or grana) to sprinkle on top
  • honey to drizzle on top
  • pepper a generous pinch to sprinkle on top
  • 1 tsp finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes 
  • dill to sprinkle on top

Instructions

  1. First, let's prepare the dough: in a bowl, add flour, crumbled yeast and about 80% of the water.
  2. Start mixing slowly with a wooden spoon, then after a couple of minutes start mixing with your hands.
  3. If feels quite dry and hard, add the remaining water. After a couple of minutes, add the salt. Mix for an extra couple of minutes to ensure all ingredients are well incorporated, and the dough is getting a bit elastic. (note: you can do this with a stand mixer with a hook attachment too).
  4. Let it rest, covered, for about 1h in a warm environment (you can even place it in the oven with the light on) until doubled in size.
  5. When it's almost time, turn the oven on at 200C.
  6. Take your baking tray and line it with parchment paper.
  7. Add a drizzle of olive oil.
  8. Take your dough and flatten it onto the baking tray using your hands, making sure to cover the whole surface.
  9. Start adding the toppings: grated cheese, goat's cheese, sun dried tomatoes, dill, freshly found pepper, some extra olive oil.
  10. Bake it for about 20 minutes, until the top is golden and crunchy and the bottom is nicely cooked.
  11. Remove and let it cool off before serving.
  12. Buon appetito!

Notes

Storage: it keeps in the fridge in an airtight container for a couple of days.

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