Sourdough Focaccia Recipe
This is my go-to recipe when I want some sourdough bread, but I don’t have the time or energy to make a traditional sourdough loaf. The best part- you won’t need to do any stretch and folds! All you need is a kitchen-aid, stand mixer or hand mixer. If you don’t have a mixer, you will have to do a couple rounds of stretch and folds every 20-30 minutes until the dough is mixed and elastic. If you use a stand mixer, not stretch and folds are necessary!
You are going to need FED sourdough starter for this recipe. Make sure to feed your starter the morning before, so it is bubbly, activated and ready to use.
Pro-tip: If you want to eat this in the morning, start it at night! That way the dough can proof for 12 hours.
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Ingredients:
500g flour
275g fed sourdough starter
300g water
100g olive oil
15g salt
Seasonings and toppings of choice: rosemary, garlic powder, everything bagel seasoning, cherry tomatoes
Directions:
In a stand mixer, mix together water, sourdough starter, olive oil and salt
Add flour to the wet mixture
Let the ingredients mix on slow in the stand mixer for about 10 minutes. You want everything to be mixed and for the dough to be elastic.
Put dough in a large bowl (I usually keep mine in the stand mixer bowl), cover with a towel, and let it rise overnight
In the morning, oil a baking sheet and put dough on sheet
Use fingers to gently press the dough until evenly spread out. Half way through pressing the dough, I drizzle olive oil on top then continue to press the bread. This helps the dough not stick to your fingers while you press the dough out to the corners of the baking sheet
Let dough sit and rise for an hour
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
If you didn’t already drizzle olive oil on top earlier, do that now.Then top dough with seasonings and toppings of your choosing
Bake in oven for 20 minutes
I love to use focaccia for breakfast sandwiches. I cut the focaccia into a bunch of squares, then cut each square in half to make sandwich bread. If the bread isn’t fresh, I just through the slices in the toaster, then add avocado and eggs to make a delicious sandwich!
