# Focaccia

Italian recipe from Chef Jason McKinney, about 5 hours, serves about 12.

One half sheet pan, and almost all of the five hours is waiting. The only technique in it is dimpling hard enough — right down to the bottom of the pan, with wet fingers, like you mean it.

- Total time: about 5 hours
- Hands-on: about 20 minutes
- Serves: about 12
- Level: Easy
- Cuisine: Italian

## Ingredients

- 512 g flour
- 455 g water
- 20 g salt
- 10 g sugar
- 7 g (1 packet) dry yeast
- 60 g olive oil, for the pan and the top
- to finish flaked salt, for the top

## Method

1. Whisk the yeast and sugar into the water. Stand 5 minutes.
2. Add the flour and salt. Mix with a spatula until no dry flour remains. Cover.
   Chef's note: No kneading. You are just making sure every bit of flour is wet.
3. Fold in the bowl four times, 30 minutes apart.
   Chef's note: Wet hand, reach under, stretch it up and over. Four folds, quarter turn each time. That is the whole gluten development.
4. Oil the pan with 30 g. Turn the dough in, coat it, cover, rest 2 hours.
5. Stretch to the corners. Oil the top with the other 30 g and dimple all the way to the bottom of the pan with wet fingers.
   Chef's note: This is the step people are too polite about. Go all the way down, right through to the metal. Those holes are what hold the oil.
6. Rest 45 minutes. Flaked salt over.
7. Bake 230C for 22 to 25 minutes.
8. Out of the pan onto a rack immediately.
   Chef's note: Leave it in the pan and the bottom steams itself soft. Straight onto the rack, every time.

## Tools

- Half sheet pan, 33 x 46 cm
- A big bowl, room for the dough to double
- Spatula
- Scale, this is a weight recipe — a cup measure will not do it

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Recipe page with photos and video: https://chefjasonmckinney.com/recipes/focaccia-half-sheet
By Chef Jason McKinney. Free to cook; please link the page when you share it.