Name: Homemade Easy Focaccia Bread Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 13 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 3 people
Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 ½ teaspoon dry active yeast; 1/2 tablespoon sugar; 1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil; 1/2 cup warm water (you may need less); Flake sea salt; 1 tablespoon rosemary (fresh or dry); 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil

Focaccia bread is one of the Italian bread I ask for when at a restaurant, it tastes awesome with shredded parmesan and olive oil. You can add bacon, caramelized onion, or cheese to focaccia bread but today we will make a simple version with rosemary.

How to make focaccia bread?

Focaccia bread is crispy from the outside and soft from the inside. One of the easiest bread to make and is ridiculously delicious. If you love focaccia bread, you will enjoy my Soft Garlic Knots with Parmesan.

To make crispy and mouth-watering focaccia bread, you will need, all purpose flour, salt, yeast (I have used fast active yeast), water, sugar and olive oil.
I like to make sure that the yeast is still alive and kicking. So, in a small bowl, I add the water, sugar, and yeast, I mix the ingredients all up and cover the bowl. I keep the bowl in a warm place for ten minutes and then later check if there is a froth or thick foam, that’s an indication that the yeast is good, and the dough will rise.
In a different bowl, I add the flour and salt and gradually add the wet ingredients. Kneading the dough until it’s smooth for around five minutes or six and then add the olive oil and knead for two more minutes.
The dough should be smooth and not sticking to your hand. Cover the dough until it doubles in size, and that takes an hour and a half to two hours.

How to bake the perfect Focaccia bread?

To bake good bread, you must bring the oven to the right temperature. In today’s recipe, you have to preheat the oven to 374F/190C. If your oven doesn’t prompt you when it reaches the desired temperature, then use the oven after fifteen minutes of turning it on, that’s usually a good time for an oven to preheat.

Now that the dough has risen, you have two options, either spread the dough to a quarter of an inch high to get crispy focaccia or to half an inch to get a crispy layer from the outside with tender crumbs inside.

Cover the dough and let it rise again for 30 minutes. Use your fingers to dimple the dough. Brush the dough with olive oil and sprinkle it with flake sea salt and dry or fresh rosemary.

Bake the focaccia for 12 to 13 minutes or until golden in color. While warm brush with more olive oil if you wish and then serve.

Slices of focaccia bread over baking sheet.

How to store focaccia bread?

Wrap the focaccia bread in a plastic wrap and then with an aluminum foil and place it in the fridge for two days. You can also place the wrapped focaccia in the freezer for a month.

When using frozen focaccia, it is best to allow it to come to room temperature and then heat it in the oven for a few minutes.

How to serve homemade focaccia bread?

You can toast the slices of focaccia bread and use it to enjoy your favorite dips.
Cut the focaccia into cubes and toast it to use it in salads.
Focaccia is perfect when served with stews and soups.
Add pizza toppings over the focaccia bread and bake for a few

Close up image of focaccia bread slices.

If you like bread you will also like:

Olive Garden Breadsticks.

Egyptian Fino Bread.

Braided Sweet Milk Bread.

French Olive Bread.

This post was originally published in 2012 but it’s been edited with new text and images!