This Mini Focaccia is a Bread Game Changer
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Published 2023-05-12
It's your favorite dimpled, fluffy Italian bread recipe — but make it small enough for one meal! It's baked in a loaf pan so every slice gets an edge piece, and can be customized with herbs, garlic, olives, or whatever suits your taste buds best. Whether it becomes a gorgeous sandwich like Martin makes here, or a shared savory treat with delicious fix-ins, Small-Batch Cheesy Focaccia is that trendy recipe you've got to try for yourself.
King Arthur Bread Flour: bakewith.us/BreadFlourFocacciaYT
Bread Pans: bakewith.us/BreadPansYT
Set of 10 Bowl Covers: bakewith.us/10BowlCoversYT
Focaccia variations in this video:
Plain: Top the dough with additional olive oil and coarse salt. Bake for 17 to 22 minutes.
Rosemary-Olive: Add pitted olives to taste (1/2 cup or so) and freshly minced rosemary. Bake for 17 to 22 minutes.
Garlic Confit and Lemon: Break up 1 bulb of garlic and simmer the cloves in olive oil for 20 minutes.
Top the dough with the garlic, fresh lemon zest, and coarse salt to taste. Bake for 17 to 22 minutes.
Sandwich: Season some sliced bell peppers, halved roma tomatoes, and garlic cloves with olive oil, salt, and pepper. While the oven preheats, roast the vegetables on a cookie sheet until jammy, withered, and browned on the bottom. Martin dressed his sandwich with basil mayonnaise, Scamorza cheese (smoked mozzarella), and the vegetables.
Credits
Host: Martin Philip
Producer: Tucker Adams
Chapters
0:00-0:44: Introduction to Small-Batch Cheesy Focaccia
0:45-2:01: Using Bread Flour to make the dough
2:02-2:49: The two bowl folds that give strength to the dough
2:50-4:15: Placing and dimpling the dough in a loaf pan
4:16-5:34: Customizing your focaccia with other ingredients
5:35-6:10: Getting the bread out of the pan after the bake
6:11-6:55: Checking out that sweet interior crumb
6:56-7:46: Making a focaccia sandwich using one small loaf
7:47: Martin can barely handle how delicious it is
All Comments (21)
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We made three loaves of this today. It was literally the best tasting bread that we have eaten in months. I made a sandwich, and my wife did a Mediterranean thing with olives and tomatoes and all other kinds of corruption. We didn’t even talk when we were eating - and we ALWAYS TALK DURING MEALS. Other than groans of ecstasy, not a word. And she ate one whole loaf, and I ate another. All gone (because we gave the last one to the navy veteran across the street, and there is a suspicious silence with muffled groans coming from that direction now). Thank you for posting this. My wife watches you all the time, and I get all the benefits!
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It is truly mind blowing how you can mix just the same three ingredients in different ratios and produce such drastically different breads! This is one reason why I love baking bread!
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More small batch recipes please!
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A slightly larger pan will make it thinner, and then you have a GREAT pizza crust. Make the focaccia and then top with some sauce and mild cheeses and bake a second time on a cookie sheet. I do this for my mom and she loves it. I cannot wait to try this recipe! I never made mini loaves before and it makes so much sense.
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I've made the cheesy version twice to go with our dinners. My husband & I finished the loaf in one sitting. The bread is so light & airy with a wonderful flavor. Thank you for developing small batch breads for us small households. I hope that there will be more small batch recipes in the near future.
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This is wonderful. Please make more small portion breads. We are a small household and don’t eat that much bread! But I like bread!
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Thank you for making a small bread/batch. Many of us live alone or just a couple, and this really helps to get the recipe accurately.
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Thank you for recognizing that not everyone lives with lots of other people! I've been trying to figure out how to make smaller loaves of bread without resorting to biscuits, and ... here you are. This I will try very soon.
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Love Martin's passion for baking!
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What a great idea for focaccia to bake a small batch in a loaf pan. Will have to try this and also try to make one using sourdough! Thanks so much for this and all those wonderful suggestions for different toppings. My mouth is watering.
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Thank you ! Love it!
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Wow! These look delicious and super easy! Thank you, KABC and Martin!
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Love this! Easy and not an overwhelming amount
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Fantastic! Thank you so much
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Thank you!
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I cannot wait to make this! This is perfect for a single person when you don’t want to have too much bread left over.
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You’ve done it again Martin!!! Simply brilliant!!
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I am so looking forward to making this bread, all your bread recipes are very informative and I have learnt a lot thanks for sharing👍
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Made this recipe yesterday for Philly Cheese Steaks for my husband and me. Fabulous and easy !!
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Delicious, thanks
