This Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread is surprisingly simple but makes rich, flavorful and crispy from outside and soft from inside. Focaccia bread is one of the most popular Italian bread and is very easy to make.
A simple focaccia bread dough lends itself to so many variations that once you know how to make perfect dough, your options are endless. You can add many different toppings. This Focaccia Bread recipe is a no-fail recipe.
The trick to make focaccia is to ensure you create lots of dimples with your fingertips into the dough and drizzle enough olive oil into those dimples.
A cup of hot soup with Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread, ahhhhh What else we need in cold winter days!!!
How to make Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread?
Direction
In a mixing bowl, add water, yeast, and sugar. Allow it to sit for a few minutes to activate the yeast.
1. Add flour, salt, and oil. Knead the dough until it is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes.
2. Form the dough into a round ball and place in an oiled bowl, turn to coat the entire ball with oil. Cover it and let it rise in a warm place for an hour or until double in size.
3. Coat the cookie pan sheet with a good amount of olive oil. Turn the dough out onto the oiled baking pan.
4. Stretch the dough out to a rectangular shape, about 1/2 inch thick.
5. Make a bunch of dimples in the dough, drizzle some olive oil. Scatter the bell peppers, onion, and rosemary. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese. Cover the pan and allow the dough to rest for 45 minutes.
6. Bake the Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread in your preheated oven @400 degree F. for about 25 minutes on the bottom rack.
7. Allow it to cool and cut it. Serve it with soup, balsamic vinegar or as is.
This bread goes very well with these delicious soups,
Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread
Ingredients
- All purpose flour / maida - 2 cups
- Warm water - 3/4 cup
- Active dry yeast - 1 1/2 tsp
- Sugar - 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Extra virgin Olive oil - 3 tbsp
- Chopped bell peppers - 1 cup
- Chopped onion - 1/2 cup
- Rosemary
- Some more extra virgin olive oil for drizzle
- Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add water, yeast, and sugar. Allow it to sit for a few minutes to activate the yeast.
- Add flour, salt, and oil. Knead the dough until it is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes.
- Form the dough into a round ball and place in an oiled bowl, turn to coat the entire ball with oil. Cover it and let it rise in a warm place for an hour or until double in size.
- Coat the cookie pan sheet with a good amount of olive oil. Turn the dough out onto the oiled baking pan.
- Stretch the dough out to a rectangular shape, about 1/2 inch thick.
- Make a bunch of dimples in the dough, drizzle some olive oil. Scatter the bell peppers, onion, and rosemary. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese. Cover the pan and allow the dough to rest for 45 minutes.
- Bake the Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread in your preheated oven @400 degree for about 25 minutes on the bottom rack.
- Allow it to cool and cut it. Serve it with soup, balsamic vinegar or as is.
2 cups flour in grams
Hi seema!
2 cups flour = 680 grams. 🙂
Hi, Can I prepare everything in the night and just toss the baking tray into oven the next morning ?
I am planning to do all the steps except baking a night before .
Please let me know.
Thank you and a very nice recipe I was looking for a long time.
Laura is my fav chef as welll.
Thanks Somya!! Yes you can make this night before and bake it the next day. Hope this helps.