Basil Focaccia Bread

I love the Italian Focaccia Bread Sandwich at San Martins in Guatemala. They serve the sandwich with potato coleslaw salad and it is delicious. The bread is very crisp on the outside and I wanted to try making at home ever since. We love to dip it in olive oil and pepper or just eat them with pasta or spaghetti or soups.

I got this recipe from www.showmethecurry.com where they gave a Rosemary and Onion version, but I tried with Basil.

Ingredients
All purpose flour - 3 cups
salt - 1/2 tsp
Olive Oil - 5 tbsp
Basil leaves - 2 tbsp
Rapid rise yeast - 2 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Warm water - 2 cups
Kosher or sea salt to taste

Method

• Mix 2 tsp of yeast with sugar and a little warm water
• Let it rest for the yeast to work in five minutes
• Mix the yeast mixture to the flour and add salt and water and make it into a smooth dough
• Take a nine inch cake tin and smear it with generous amount of olive oil
• Spread the dough evenly in the tin
• Let it rest for about an hour to rise
• After an hour's time the dough would have risen. Make small indentation with your fingers all over the dough
• Mix the basil and olive oil and spread it evenly on the dough.
• Sprinkle some sea salt on top for taste.
• Bake the bread for 25 minutes in 350 F

Enjoy the bread with pasta or dip it olive oil, vinegar and salt and eat it just like that.