Ingredients, motivation and housing courtesy Poorvi Matani, and oven & electricity courtesy Panna Parikh. A big thanks to my teachers at IHM and my mom who encouraged my culinary streak ;)
This version lacked rosemary since I didn't have ready access to any. Next batch should have that plus olives, sun-dried tomatoes and maybe some other veggies.
For the complete recipe:
- Prepare a mixture of all the herbs (seasonings, namely thyme, oregano, basil) and virgin olive oil. You can use fresh basil instead of dried basil
- Saute garlic (important step) in butter and add to the olive oil after it's somewhat cooled
- Let this sit in a closed container for anywhere between 4 hours to 1 week
- Make the bread dough as explained in this post (or any other bread dough recipe that you are comfortable with)
- After the first rise (step-7 in the post), knead in the olive oil and seasoning mixture into the dough, and let it rise a 2nd time in a flat pan (as shown in the picture above)
- After it has almost doubled in size, plonk it carefully into a pre-heated oven (410F) for ~15-20 minutes or till it's done
- Enjoy!
The last post about something similar was this recipe for Garlic & Herb Chapati.
5 comments:
You couldn't do this in SBU :( You were there for 4 months man !
Yeah, even Sandy requested many times, but I was just too lazy. Plus, all the ingredients were in the kitchen here. Plus, you don't get small quantity of ingredients here. You need to buy a big bag of flour which would have stayed on the shelf forever.
I am glad I am here for two more semesters :D
@Gaurav Don't count your loaves before they are baked :-p
Mmm, focaccia! My absolute favorite kind of bread. I don't know why I haven't made it before but I think I'll try soon. Your flavors sound sunny and delicious!
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