Cooks Illustrated Focaccia
1-1/3 cup cooked grated potato
1/2 teaspoon dried yeast
2 tablespoons olive oil (for the dough, more for greasing the pan and adding to the top of the dough)
1-1/4 teaspoons salt
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
First you take one large potato and nuke it until it is tender. Ill be honest - I have not tested the difference between a white and a russet. Ive used both.
Once it is tender you have to let it cool down. Warm, room temperature, or cold it doesnt seem to matter.
Peel off the skin and grate the potato. You need about 1-1/3 cups of grated potato.
Then, make a starter with 1-1/2 teaspoons of yeast, 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup warm water. Warm water, in the world of bread making, means between 105F and 115F.
Mix those together with a fork or whisk in the bowl you are going to use to mix up the dough. Then cover it with plastic wrap. Let it sit for about 20 minutes. It will foam and rise a bit.
After 20 minutes add: 1/2 cup warm water, 2 tablespoons olive oil, the grated potato and 1 1/4 teaspoons salt (thereabouts).
Then its time to add the flour. When it comes to making bread I rarely dump in all the flour at once. This recipe calls for 3-1/2 cups of all-purpose flour. I have never tried it with bread flour so dont know if that would change the taste or texture. Ive never used anything but all-purpose.
I prefer to mix the dough in my standing mixer with the dough hook. You can mix it with a wooden spoon, too. It just requires more muscle.
Youve already used 1/2 cup of that flour in the starter so dump in 2 to 2-1/2 cups of flour and mix it together. Keep adding flour until it isnt sticky. If you are using a mixer keep adding the flour until it hangs in a cohesive hunk and doesnt ooze off the hook.
If you are kneading it by hand you should transfer it to a lightly floured counter once the ingredients are mixed together. Then knead it and knead it and knead it some more. It needs to be smooth and elastic.
Put a tablespoon of olive oil into a clean bowl and then add the dough. Toss it to coat the dough. Cover it with a towel and put it someplace warm to rise. Its supposed to double in size.
I usually preheat the oven to warm and then put the covered bowl into the oven and turn it off. Especially in the winter, its hard to find a warm spot in my house.
Dont try and rush this recipe. It needs plenty of rise time.
Once it rises to double its size, spread it out on a cookie sheet greased with olive oil. Or you can use a Silpat, a nonstick reusable pan liner, without the oil.
Then brush olive oil over the top, sprinkle with kosher salt and some crushed rosemary, fresh or dried, if you like.
At this stage, its good to let it rise for as long as you can. The puffier it gets the more tender it bakes up. I usually let it rise on top of the oven and rotate the tray after a half hour or so.
After it is to the height that you want, or you cant wait any longer, pre-heat the over to 425F. Bake the focaccia until it is golden brown (about 25 minutes in my oven).
Let it cool enough so that you dont burn your mouth when you eat it. Then enjoy.
Ive seen recipes that use focaccia in place of sandwich bread and I guess you can use this or even top it with bruschetta.
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