Here it is folks! Our family favourite Sourdough Foccacia Bread recipe! Use it as pizza dough, making two medium-large pizzas or as focaccia bread. You can also cut the baked sourdough focaccia into squares and cut in half to make buns for sandwiches. Sourdough Foccacia is a simple and versatile sourdough recipe every baker needs in their arsenal!
Sourdough Foccacia
This is our family favourite Sourdough Foccacia Bread recipe! Use it as pizza dough, making two medium-large pizzas or as focaccia bread. You can also cut the baked sourdough focaccia into squares and cut in half to make buns for sandwiches. It's a simple and versatile sourdough recipe every baker needs in their arsenal!
Ingredients
- 1 cup starter
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil plus additional olive oil for drizzling
- 1 ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 cup flour any combo of white or whole wheat
- herbs of choice such as rosemary, thyme, dried onions; optional
Instructions
- Stir all of the ingredients together.
- Cover and let sit 6-24 hrs.
- Press into a parchment covered or greased half sheet pan (big cookie sheet). Drizzle a good few tablespoons olive oil on and spread around.
- Make finger indentations in top then sprinkle coarse/kosher salt and dried herb of choice on top.
- Let it rest until oven up to temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 450F.
- Bake 20-25 minutes. Then eat up!!
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Notes
- We love rosemary or thyme. Dried onion is yum too!
Nutrition
Calories: 191kcalCarbohydrates: 36gProtein: 5gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 0.4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 294mgPotassium: 45mgFiber: 1gSugar: 0.1gCalcium: 8mgIron: 2mg
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Once you've mastered working with sourdough you'll find you're wondering what other recipes you can try with it now? Here are my tried & true favorite sourdough recipes!
Erika
Made just as directed (and checking with you on insta). Came out absolutely perfect!! Perfect amount of chew too.
katehosie
I am so glad to hear!!
Austin
Can you freeze this dough? I made it and it rose very quickly over night and I'll have no ingredients for my pizza until this evening... :s
Stephany
if i'm using this for pizzza dough, do i prebake dough at all before the toppings? or is that not necessary?
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No, not necessary.
Leah Glick
I've made this three times in a week. And even with having to split into smaller pans because my oven is a !toaster oven¡, I'm still getting fabulous results. Used it for sandwiches, split pieces for sandwiches and then made pizzas with them. (I didn't get the dough thin enough before baking.)
The complete ease of making and throwing in a bowl and leaving covered for up to 24 hours is great.
Rebecca Schwen
Mixing this up now for pizza tonight! I'm so proud that I revived my sourdough starter from the fridge where it sat for a couple weeks!
Steph
Hi Kate, when it says "starter" does that mean fed or unfed? Or is that discard? Clearly, I'm new to this 🙂
katehosie
Fed within the last 24-36 hrs is sufficient
Jesse
Thank you for this easy and very tasty recipe!!! This has now been officially declared by my daughter as her fave bread (she’s turning 20 tomorrow and I’m preparing this for the simple bday dinner we’ll have for her)
Marianna
This is an amazing recipe! We make it often. Thank you!
katehosie
Thank you so much for sharing this! Love that!
Ally D
Love using this recipe for pizza nights with friends and family. I make a triple batch of this recipe and ask friends to bring their own toppings - makes for an easy and yummy potlock style gathering!
Steph
7 words - top with everything but the bagel seasoning. Wowww. Also great for making your own pizza!
April
I just made this last night to go with my supper. I topped with herbs de Provence seasoning...so good!
Heather
I’ve made as a side for soup and as a pizza dough. Both are great!
Kim
If i could only ever make one sourdough recipe, THIS would be it. So versatile- buns, bread or pizza crust...i try to keep a batch in the fridge so i can utilize it however suits us best. Knowing i can thaw soup and bake focaccia at a moments notice is a great plan b!
Kelsey Carter
This is my favorite foccacia recipe so far. I’ve also used it for pizza. I love adding rosemary, thyme, anything savory. Yum!
KATES BIG SISTER
the timeline is super flexible on sourdough foccacia/ pizza dough so i prefer it over our old family standby - the rebar foccacia. The sourdough now far surpasses it with texture and tenderness too. we like thin crust so we do about 3 pizzas per recipe.
Laura Roberts
My oldest's favorite!! He literally asks about this focaccia all the time. The kid grew up with birthday dinners at souplantation and says this is waaaay better than theirs ?
It makes friday pizza nights easy peasy! Thanks girl!
bhope
Loved this recipe! It made great pizza dough!
Natalie Schilling
I used this as pizza dough, added Italian seasoning and rosemary. It was the best homemade pizza I have made!
kateschat
sounds so good!!
Amy Schwemler
Super simple and my family loves this as foccaccia or pizza dough.
Elizabeth
Amazing recipe. Making it for the second time tonight!
Ça?an
I turned this recipe into a fresh ground spelt boule bread with the help of a couple of stretch and folds. It was very tasty! This recipe is straightforward and versatile.
J
I have made this many times and we love it! I usually let it rise for 6 hours. This time I let it rise overnight. I was planning on making the foccacia around 5pm, which would be a 24 hour rise. I see that it is starting to fall…is it okay to wait another 4 hours to bake, or should I bake now? Thanks in advance! Jenna
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Sorry we didn’t get back to you within your baking window. I would have put it in early. What did you decide and how did it work out?