Focaccia Di Recco
Dici carnevale e pensi chiacchiere, il dolce carnevalesco più amato dal bel paese, che proprio in questi giorni colorano le tavole degli italiani.
Recipe Summary Focaccia Di Recco
This is a delicious and super fun-to-make Ligurian flatbread. It's great served as is, but I like it with arugula that's been tossed in a little olive oil.Ingredients | Chiacchiere Di Carnevale Giallo Zafferano2 cups all-purpose flour½ cup cold water2 tablespoons cold water1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil¾ teaspoon fine salt1 quarter-sheet baking pan1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil1 teaspoon cornmeal12 tablespoons crescenza-stracchino cheese, divided4 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt, dividedDirectionsPlace flour into work bowl of a large stand mixer; add both amounts of water, 1 tablespoon olive oil, and 3/4 teaspoon salt. Mix dough using stand mixer fitted with dough hook on low speed until it forms a ball on the dough hook, 5 to 6 minutes. Dough should be soft and elastic but not sticky.Turn dough out onto a work surface and form a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand on counter at room temperature for 1 hour.Lightly grease the quarter-sheet baking pan with 1 teaspoon olive oil; sprinkle with cornmeal. Dust a work surface lightly with flour.Move oven rack to center position. Preheat oven to 500 degrees F (260 degrees C).Unwrap dough and cut into quarters. Pat each quarter out on the floured work surface to a roughly rectangular shape. Roll 1 piece of dough out to about 3/8 inch thick, retaining rough rectangle shape, until dough is about 6x8 inches. Pick up dough with well-floured hands and gently stretch it, rotating as you go, until dough is almost large enough to fit over the prepared sheet pan. Pull and stretch dough so it overlaps the edge of the pan by about 1/2 inch and fasten dough edges to sheet pan edges; dough will be thin and membrane-like.Drop about 6 tablespoons of crescenza-stracchino cheese onto the stretched dough, spreading the dollops out evenly. Roll out another piece of dough as before, stretching to fit over the first dough sheet and cheese. Stretch, pull, and seal dough as before so the cheese is enclosed between the 2 sheets of dough.Roll a rolling pin over the edges of the dough to simultaneously seal the flatbread edges and cut the overlapping edges off. Roll the overlapping dough edges away from the pan so flatbread falls into the prepared pan. Press flatbread edges flat and roll slightly if desired to be sure the edges are fully sealed. Discard rolled-off dough edges.Pinch a small bit of the top dough between your thumb and forefinger and gently tear a small hole in the dough; repeat 2 or 3 more times to make a few tears in the top layer.Drizzle flatbread lightly with 2 teaspoons olive oil; sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt.Bake in the preheated oven until flatbread has many browned, blistered spots on top, bread has inflated, and the top is crusty, 6 to 7 minutes. Repeat steps to make a second flatbread using second half of dough as before. Drizzle 2nd flatbread with remaining 2 teaspoons olive oil and 1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt. Bake second bread as before. Cut in breads into quarters and serve warm.2 cups flour equals 9.5 ounces by weight.Info | Chiacchiere Di Carnevale Giallo Zafferanoprep:
40 mins
cook:
15 mins
additional:
1 hr
total:
1 hr 55 mins
Servings:
8
Yield:
2 flatbread
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