Easy Foccacia Recipe

Claire Bruce was a very early supporter of Hornbeam, test driving some prototype pans and sharing her feedback. Claire's Easy Foccacia is a great adaptable bread recipe with the added bonus of helping to build a naturally non-stick surface on your skillet. 

Claire's Foccacia Recipe

• 500g White Bread Flour
• 10g Salt
• 4g Yeast
• 400g Tepid Water
• Olive Oil
• Toppings (Sea Salt, Fennel Seeds, Rosemary, Black Pepper)

Place flour in a bowl and leave in a warm spot to take off any chill from storage. Add yeast, salt and finally tepid water. Nothing should be cold to the touch.

With a large spoon or wet hands bring this together in the bowl. Cover and leave in a warm place for 30 mins.

Uncover and with wet hands stretch the edges into centre, moving around the bowl stretch and fold the wet dough into the centre about six times. 

Cover and leave in a warm spot for 30 mins.

Repeat folding step another six times.

Grease a No.10 skillet with your preferred cooking oil and transfer the dough into the skillet. Leave in warm place for 30 mins.

Dimple the top with wet fingers. Drizzle generously with olive oil and scatter your choice of toppings and sea salt.

Bake at 220 for 25 mins. It it's getting too dark on top, turn oven down to 200.

About Claire

Living in her unique home looking out across the beach at Dungeness Claire forages, picks and lives off local ingredients creating frugalicious recipes and menus.
A great one for not going shopping, Claire champions using up leftovers and no rules cookery, holding inspiring workshops in her open plan kitchen.
Claire also hosts intimate suppers, cooking sharing and joining guests to eat supper at her homemade barn door kitchen table. You can even stay the night in a cosy cabin in her garden. Claire will deliver breakfast to your door and share her favourite secret locations in Dungeness and Romney Marsh.
She doesn’t like to shout about it but Claire was a semi finalist on Masterchef. Claire's cooking style is entirely self-taught and rooted in her childhood growing up in a big family where anyone stayed for lunch or supper. Many of her dishes have developed from her mum's frugalicious ways of stretching ingredients to feed everyone.

Find plenty more cast iron cooking inspiration from Claire @claires_kitchentable.