Pepper onion Focaccia Bread

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,

Lasagna Soup

Spinach soup

Ginger Garlic Carrot soup

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Pepper Onion Focaccia Bread

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.

Course Bread

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Focaccia Bread

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 4 people

Author Dhwani

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.

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