Focaccia is a traditional Italian flat cake, a simple food of peasants and soldiers. For the preparation of focaccia, you can use different types of dough, or yeast, the same as for pizza , either fresh or rich. This can be a simpler dough of just three components: flour, water and olive oil. Sometimes milk is added. There are variants of sweet, salty and neutral taste with different fillings and without.
Fillings can be added to the dough or laid out on an already prepared hot cake. The filling can include herbs (basil, oregano and others, they are usually put into dough), as well as olives, tomatoes, onions, fruits, cheeses and other products typical for the economy of a particular area (each with its own cooking traditions). Cheeses, in any case, are very suitable for focaccia: the cheese is slightly melted on a hot cake, and then slightly cools, thus gluing other components of the filling.
Consider in different ways how you can cook focaccia with cheese. Dough is better to cook independently from whole wheat flour of durum wheat.
Focaccia Recipe with Cheese and Green Onion
Ingredients:
- whole wheat flour - about 2 cups;
- water or milk - about 1 cup;
- yeast - 1 packet of dry (or 2 times more pressed);
- olive oil of the first cold pressing - about 20-30 ml;
- sugar - 1-2 tsp (for starting yeast);
- common salt - 1 pinch;
- grated cheese (ideally - Italian cheeses);
- green onion;
- a piece of lard for lubrication.
Preparation
Prepare in a free way. We sift the flour into a bowl, make a groove. In it we add yeast, sugar, salt, butter and slightly heated milk. Not bad to add a small amount of dry ground spices: paprika, hot red and sweet pepper, etc. Mix the dough, you can mix it with a mixer. We roll it with a lump, cover it with a clean napkin and place it in a warm place for 20 minutes, after which we knead and mix again. Repeat the cycle. When the dough well approached and increased in volume, we knead it, divide it into equal pieces and roll out the focaccia cakes (not too thin), best of all - of a round shape.
At home, it is most convenient to fry the oven in a large frying pan, cast iron or aluminum, without coatings (as an option, in an oven, in a heated Russian oven, on a special ceramic round "stone" or baking sheet). If in a frying pan - we warm it up, grease it with a slice of fat and bake focaccia (with a twist) to a ruddy-golden hue. If in the oven, then at a temperature of 200 degrees about 20 minutes. Ready hot focaccia sprinkled with grated cheese and chopped green onions. Slightly cool, and you can serve.
Of course, it's good to have such a cake for something else, for example, ham, tomatoes and a glass of good unglazed table wine to serve.
You can bake a more satisfying complex double focaccia in Ligurian style with cheese, basil, onion, ham or smoked sausage, sweet pepper and olives.
The dough can be prepared the same as in the previous recipe (see above). Or to mix absolutely simple безздрожжевое a dough from a flour, water or milk and an olive oil - such dough it is possible not to dissolve. Important point: in the dough still add a little dry ground spices.
Focaccia with cheese, basil and onions
Ingredients:
- dough;
- ham or other sausages boiled-smoked, smoked;
- grated cheese;
- green onion, basil, etc. greens, only not dill;
- olives without pits;
- sweet red pepper;
- garlic;
- a piece of grease for lubrication.
Preparation
While the dough just "rest", we prepare the filling. Olives cut into thin circles, sweet peppers - short straws, ham - circles or small short strips. We cut the greens. All mixed with the addition of grated cheese. Roll out the thin flat cakes (it's convenient to make small ones, for 1 portion).
On one cake spread the filling of the second - cover and glue the edges. It was like a pie. Bake it on a greased baking sheet or on a "stone". Before the rudeness of the dough. Ready focaccia greased with a chopped clove of garlic.