15 Soft Focaccia

What should I make for dinner tonight? This might just be the number one question that we ask ourselves almost daily over here.

Then you have come to the right place, we have rounded up 15 soft focaccia that we have shared over the years.

Plus, there is such a variety of flavours in these recipes, so you are sure to find something for you. Most of these recipes are quick and easy ones made especially for busy weeknights.

15 Soft Focaccia

Focaccia

1 hr 40 min

Rosemary, olive oil, instant yeast, garlic, sea salt

4.5368

Rasa Malaysia

Soft Focaccia

50 min

Brewer’s yeast, rosemary, olive oil, flour

4.65

Italian recipes by Giallozafferano

Crispy and Fluffy Focaccia Recipe

55 min

Olive oil, instant yeast, high protein

5.02

Home Cooking Collective

Quick and Easy Italian Focaccia

Olive oil, instant yeast, all purpose flour, fresh thyme

No reviews

Little Vienna

Focaccia Bread Recipe

4 hr

Honey, rapid rise yeast, olive oil, garlic, all purpose flour

5.0117

Natasha’s Kitchen

Best Focaccia Recipe

50 min

Olive oil, sugar, active dry yeast, sea salt, garlic powder

5.01

Everyday Dishes

Easy Rosemary Garlic Focaccia Bread

2 hr

Maple syrup, olive oil, active dry yeast, sea salt, all purpose flour

4.8278

Inspired Taste

Focaccia Bread, Homemade Italian Soft Bread

25 min

Black olives, olive oil, plain flour, sugar, dry yeast

5.05

Tarla Dalal

Focaccia Bread in a Pan: the recipe for high and super soft focaccia to make at home

40 min

Semolina flour, rosemary, seed oil, olive oil, milk

No reviews

Cookist

Soft Sourdough Focaccia

17 hr

Sourdough starter, honey, bread flour, olive oil, dried rosemary

4.73

Butter For All

Quick focaccia in one hour

1 hr

Sun dried tomatoes, pesto, rosemary, white bread flour, roasted peppers

4.914

Family-Friends-Food

Focaccia Bread Recipe

2 hr 59 min

Honey, olive oil, instant yeast, sea salt, all purpose flour

4.210

The Spruce Eats

Focaccia

2 hr 5 min

Honey, rosemary, olive oil, active dry yeast, all purpose flour

5.06

Comfort Food Ideas

Rosemary Potato Focaccia

3 hr 35 min

Potatoes, olive oil, sugar, dry yeast, all purpose flour

5.02

Cooking My Dreams

Ridiculously Easy Focaccia Bread

40 min

Olive oil, instant yeast, italian seasoning, sea salt, all purpose flour

5.0113

The Cafe Sucre Farine

12 Related Question Answers About Soft Focaccia

Is focaccia supposed to be soft?

Focaccia is a soft and fluffy flat bread made with olive oil and various toppings.

Why is my focaccia not soft?

Use Highly Hydrated Dough

Use a minimum of 70 percent hydration in your dough allowing better flavor and bigger crumb that will remain moist for days. Higher hydration also prevents the focaccia from being too dry.

What should the texture of focaccia be?

Focaccia Ingredients

A good focaccia, to me, should have a crisp, salty crust and a light, but slightly chewy texture. The mark of a good focaccia is those air pockets you see in the crumb.

How do you make focaccia soft again?

The microwave is the quickest way to reheat focaccia. Wrap the focaccia in a damp paper towel and heat it for 30 seconds. Check on the bread and heat it again for another 20 seconds if you need to. The microwave won’t crisp up the outside.

What happens if you Overproof focaccia?

If you overproof then there will be nothing left for it to do, and you will get no rise. So when you place the risen dough in the pan, make sure to not let the dough rise for more than 2 hours. The only exception is if your kitchen is super cold and it’s still not puffy.

How wet should focaccia dough be?

This dough will be very, very wet – almost like cake mix. If you can, wet your hands (to stop them sticking) and fold the dough over a little, just to see what a dough of this wetness (or ‘hydration’) feels like.

Why is my focaccia bread so dense?

Until then, I had always baked focaccia in large rectangular sheet pans. But after seeing it baked in cake pans, I realized that by working with such an unwieldy lump of dough, I had been mishandling it and thereby taking the air out of it, which makes for a dense bread.

Should focaccia be thick or thin?

As a general rule of thumb, a classic Italian-style pizza crust will be less than half an inch thick while most focaccia will be at least three quarters of an inch thick. Also, focaccia is most commonly served at room temperature — though you can also eat focaccia bread cold or toasted.

Why is my focaccia bread doughy?

The flour could have too low a protein content, there could be too much salt in the bread recipe, you did not knead it or leave it to prove for long enough or you could have killed the yeast by leaving the dough to rise in a place that was too hot.

Should focaccia have bubbles?

A well-proofed dough will have lots of air bubbles and rises quickly; that massaging adds dimples that keep your focaccia flat, as it should be. Also, those dimples hold the olive oil coating and help it soak into the dough, which gives your finished bread that crisp and golden crust.

How do you know when focaccia is ready?

Bake the focaccia:

Check the dough after another 7 minutes. If it’s done, it will be golden brown on top and, if you lift a corner of the dough, the underside will be golden as well. If not, return the pan to the oven for another 1 to 2 minutes and check again.

What is the reason that the crumb of the focaccia is open and more tender?

Simply put, this is a very wet dough. The more hydrated the dough, the more elastic — resulting in an open, airy crumb! Fold + Stretch Technique. Typically used for wetter doughs, this technique gently develops gluten over time.