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Yesterday afternoon, I made this lovely wholemeal spelt foccacia with home-grown rosemary & 2 types of home-grown smaller tomatoes! Ooh yes! It has become a real thing of beauty! :)
I used a combination of 10 smaller plum orange tomatoes & 10 red cherry tomatoes! I used a combo of 50/50 white spelt flour & wholemeal spelt flour! I also used instant yeast! I used less salt in my dough because we always do this. The salt ratio is just right!!
Recipe: For 1 larger spelt foccacia
Ingredients:
250 gr organic white spelt flour
250 gr organic wholemeal spelt flour
4 tablespoons of a fruity extra virgin olive oil ( evoo )
1 packet of 7 gr instant yeast
1 teaspoon + 1/2 teaspoon Maldon sea salt flakes or a bit more, grinned in a pestle & mortar until fine, then measured!!!
300 ml luke warm water
1 teaspoon coconut sugar
Toppings:
10 apéritif orange plum tomatoes, each cut up into 2
10 red cherry tomatoes, each cut up into 2
1 long fresh rosemary sprig, cleaned, pad dry on towel, the strips, needles finely cut up
a few pinches of Maldon sea salt flakes extra for on the top, not grinned
a few drizzles of that same fruity evoo
Method:
1. Take a large bowl & ad white spelt flour, wholemeal spelt flour, instant yeast, sugar, salt, olive oil & mix well with a spoon. Add 300 ml of luke warm water & with your hand, mingle everything well together. The dough has to be elastic & soft. Do not add too much flour!!! Lightly flour your kitchen counter with white spelt flour. Place your dough on it & quickly knead your dough for a bout 1 to 2 minutes, no more,…:) Oil another big bowl & place your dough in it, also remove the excess dough of your hands & place onto & or into the dough. Place cling film over the top & place in a sunny or warm place to rise for the 1st time until doubled! It took me 1.5 hours. It will look something like this:
After the 1st rise! :)
2. Take a larger oven plate & smear it in with olive oil. Take your bowl with the risen dough. Knock it back 2 times & place it onto the prepared oiled oven plate. Push it with your fingertips onto the oiled plate, spreading it out. You can choose how thin or thick you want it to be. Place oiled cling film loosely over the top & sides & place it in a sunny or warm spot for about 25-30 minutes. Leave it to rise for the 2nd time. It will look something like this:
After the 2nd rise!
3. Now, preheat your fan oven to 190°C for about 10 minutes, in the last 10 minutes of the second rise. Drizzle a bit of that fruity evoo all over the dough surface & push it with your fingertips into the dough. Like in the 1st picture below! Now, place your cut up tomatoes, into the holes, pushing them a bit into the dough otherwise the tomato halves can burn! Scatter your finely cut up rosemary all over your spelt foccacia & scatter a few pinches of Maldon sea salt flakes all over the surface of the dough, but not too much, just a few pinches! Because there is already salt into the dough! ;) It will look something like this:
4. Place the oven plate on an oven rack & bake in the middle of the oven for about 26-30 minutes into the hot oven until golden brown & it will be ready when it sounds hole when tapped on the bottom. Carefully place the oven plate on wire racks to cool down a bit. When cooler, remove the foccacia with help of a spatula on a wire rack to cool down. If you want, you can savour it while still a bit warm, but we ate them cold. We served it like this:
Yumm! Look at that crumb!
Buffalo mozzarella, olive oil, black pepper, some sea salt & yellow pear tomatoes from the garden, marinated for 30 minutes! :)
San Daniele Ham, Buffalo M. & young salad leaves!
Enjoy, my lovely ones, like you want! The spelt foccacia is vegan! :) The rest how you savor it, is up to you! :) I served it with a lovely Rosé wine like Gris de Rosé, 2013.
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