Focaccia bread is a flat oven baked bread that has become very popular throughout North America. This focaccia bread recipe is absolutely delicious, with a slight flavor of rosemary and Parmesan cheese. Focaccia, is a perfect finger food for that special dinner party.
For a step by step cooking class of this tasty Focaccia bread click here.
For a printable recipe card of this Focaccia click here.
We also made a Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Bread Dip that is to die for. Several years ago my sister (she’s also the one who does the photography for this blog and for cookingbread.com) had the opportunity to eat at a great restaurant called Griffins in The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. She fell in love with their sun-dried tomato bread dip served as an appetizer. So, she asked the waiter jokingly for the recipe, not expecting to get it. Well, a few minutes later the waiter came back with the recipe in hand and presented it to her. She was absolutely shocked that they had given her the recipe. See, it pays to ask, you just never know, you may get what you ask for.
Needless to say this recipe has become a family favorite and now we want to share this recipe with all of you.
- 12 dry sun-dried tomatoes
- 1/2 chopped onion
- 2 cups extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 clove crushed garlic
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped basil
- 1 medium diced hot pepper
Blanch the sun-dried tomatoes in boiling water for 3 minutes. Remove from water and chop. In a saucepan simmer the onions, (blanched) sun-dried tomatoes, garlic in 1 cup of olive oil for 30 minutes. Pour into a blender with the hot pepper and basil blend for 7 seconds. Add balsamic vinegar and remaining oil. Refrigerate for 6 hours. Place into a sealed container. This bread dip will last for 2 weeks in the fridge. Enjoy! and have a Happy New Year!
For a step by step cooking class of this tasty Focaccia bread click here.
For a printable recipe card of this Focaccia bread click here.
For other free bread recipes go to cookingbread.com
The photo of this bread jumps off the page! It is gorgeous and the bread looks amazing. I just have to give it a try! I am also a huge fan of sun dried tomato anything so I think I will give that a go too!
Thanks for bringing us such a beautiful website.
I had a chance to try this recipe and it was BY FAR THE best foccacia I have ever had. We had it during Christmas and it stayed fluffy for days which was great. I’d recommend this to anyone. The bread dip was just as good and so easy. I still have some in a jar that I can pull out next time we have guests.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to try to make my own focaccia, but I’m going to do so this week!
Looks mouth watering
Oh man, I love a bit of Focaccia.
The lighting in your pictures is excellent. It makes the bread look even more delicious!
Red,
Thank you for the comment. I think the lighting worked real well on this bread. We used large glass milk bottles and had the light reflect through the glass. To be fair to the focaccia it is amazingly delicious, as is the dip.
The bread looks delicious I can’t wait to try it. The Sun-dried Tomato and Basil dip sounds awesome and I can’t wait to try both of them together! Thanks for the post!
Looks terrific- foccacia is something I’ve yet to attempt. The dip looks amazing too!
You are so funny! Am I on a bread site or a photog site?? either way, the comments are great.
One thing I’ve always said, “Sundried tomatos and goat cheese are the best.” So that means adding goat cheese to this recipe has to work!
Hey Mary,
thanks for the comment! My sister and I love taking the pictures and work very hard to give our visitors the best photo’s each week. We wanted our blog to have photo’s like you see in the cookbooks. You know the one’s that make you say “that picture looks so good, I want to eat it”. It’s also a great way to feature some of our recipes from our main site http://www.cookingbread.com
I think Goat Cheese would be wonderful too!!!
Wow, thanks for the recipe. I love focaccia, but it is not always available where I live.
Hi There, I just stumbled accross your blog on by using stumbleupon and am loving the design! I dont normally stop at blogs relating to food as I already have 20 in my RSS feed and dont even have time to read them! I do like the design though and the use of photos is awesome. I started off blogging as well and always tried to keep a clean design like yours but it aint always easy with all the things you have to fit in! If you feel like showing off any of the cool food pics i’d love to see them on my site for foodies http://www.ifoods.tv so as all the other foodies can see them! Keep up the good work on the design and happy cooking!
A sundried tomato puree spread would be delightful with this bread.
This photo is amazing! What spices/herbs do you put in your olive oil?
This looks gorgeous. I love the idea of the sundried tomato puree.
Hi, Chuck! This recipe is a Godsend! We’ve been trying to make Focaccia sandwiches (pesto, garlic and chicken filling) but we’re always running out of bread.
The photographs are also lovely, it’s such a food-styling marvel. Will share this on my Facebook, if you don’t mind. Thanks!
Vida Soraya Verzosa
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I had a quick question. I am trying the recipe for the first time as we speak, and the dough was extremely sticky when I kneaded it, is that supposed to be that way?
Than you.
I had a quick question. I am trying the recipe for the first time as we speak, and the dough was extremely sticky when I knead it, is that supposed to be that way?
Than you.