
Chef Lorin Peters Focaccia Bread
Ingredients
DOUGH
- 1024 grams All Purpose Flour
- 16 grams quick rising yeast
- 20 grams kosher salt
- 910 grams warm water
- Olive or avocado oil
- Maldon salt
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- OvenBond Half Sheet Pan
- Provisions Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls
Directions
- *18-24 HOURS IN ADVANCE*
- Combine flour, yeast, and salt and combine
- Add warm water and stir until combined
- Grease a large bowl with oil and place ball of dough inside and cover with plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for 18-24 hours
- Preheat your oven to 90 degrees (or preheat your oven to its proof setting)
- Grease your Ovenbond sheet tray (1 half or 2 quarter trays if you prefer two smaller loaves) with enough oil so that it sits in a thick layer of oil (you want enough oil to crisp the bottoms and sides of the focaccia.
- Gently stretch your dough to a large rectangle to almost the size of the pan. Doesn’t have to be quite the size of the pan, but at least an inch or less from the edge.
- Place in your preheated oven and let proof for about an hour or until has risen to fill the pan and begins to bubble
- Grease your hands with oil and using your fingers, dimple the dough slightly
- Season the top generously with Maldon salt
- Raise the temperature of your oven to 425 degrees and once preheated, bake your focaccia for 25-30 minutes, rotating halfway, and bake until golden brown
- Remove from the oven and remove focaccia with a spatula from the sheet pan to cool on a wire rack.
- Slice and serve or wrap cooled focaccia tightly in plastic wrap and freeze.