Focaccia recipe (with red onion)

Updated on June 9, 2022 by Raks Anand 45 Comments

Focaccia recipe (with red onion) - Raks Kitchen (1)

When I posted homemade Pizza, Lavi told to try focaccia. Focaccia, if its new to you is nothing but flat bread.

There are a whole lot of variations that can be done with the basic plain Focaccia.

It can be as simple as plain with only flour, salt and oil or can be topped with onion (like this recipe I am sharing), rosemary, olives, cherry tomatoes, potatoes or sometimes even cheese.

Which one is your favourite? Even the thickness and size can vary. If you are a beginner in baking, you can sure try this as its really a basic recipe to try😊.

I took the recipe from a cookbook and have adapted and changed a lot to suit my taste. So the method may not be so authentic. Please excuse.

Recipe Cuisine: Continental | Recipe Category: Breakfast
Prep Time: 30 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Makes: 9 squares

Ingredients

Bread flour - 1 & ½ cup

Instant yeast - ¾ tbsp

Olive oil - 3 tblsp + as needed

Warm water - ½ cup (+ more if needed)

Sugar - ¼ tsp

Salt (sea salt if possible) - As needed

Onion - 1

*You can replace bread flour with all purpose flour / Maida

Method

Place flour, yeast, 2 tblsp olive oil, sugar and ½ the salt in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly.

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2. Mix warm water and gather to make a non sticky dough. Knead well for 5 minutes to make it smooth. Grease the bowl and place the dough covered with a cling wrap. Set aside for 1 & ½ hours to let it rise.

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3. After 1 & ½ hour, the dough would have risen and punch it down again.

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4. Roll it to a thick flat bread in desired shape and place it over a lined, well greased baking tray. I used my rectangle baking tray. Let it sit or another ½ hour. Meanwhile, Slice onion and mix it with a tblsp of oil.

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5. Till then (½ hour) the dough would have risen a little bit and now, make shallow dips using your finger as shown in the picture. Generously drizzle olive oil and spread the sliced onion and sprinkle salt over it.

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6. Pre heat oven to 200^oC and bake the bread for 15 – 18 minutes or until the focaccia freely moves in the baking sheet. Let it cool over a wire rack and cut it into squares to serve.

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Notes

Actually, the salt has to be added only as topping, and only a pinch in the dough. But to suit my taste, I added in the dough.
I tried cooking the onion first and then topping the focaccia and bake, it got burnt, so I recommend to add as such for baking.
Using any herb will yield a flavourful bread.
I made it as a whole single bread, but you can also make small round/ oval shaped breads for easy serving.
If you are using other yeasts such as fresh yeast or dry yeast(1 tblsp), then, dissolve the sugar and yeast in luke warm water and keep aside for few minutes. It should froth and rise, forming froth on the top like a beer mug. then mix this with the flour to make dough.

Makes a wonderful soft and fluffy snack for your kids or for yourself! I had it with strawberry lemonade.

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Other Bread and bun recipes

Homemade ladi pav | Eggless pav recipe
Savory Buckwheat dinner rolls recipe
Sweet corn buns recipe | Kids snack recipes
Cinnamon bread sticks recipe | Pizza hut style

Reader Interactions

Comments

AparnaRajeshkumar
July 04, 2013 at 7:45 am

Wanted to try long time back 🙂 the taste is amazing 🙂 i tasted the stuffed foccia ! should i say its yummy!
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ramya ganesh
July 04, 2013 at 7:48 am

Hi Rak's. I don't have bread flour. is it ok to make with maida.
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Babitha costa
July 04, 2013 at 7:54 am

Great raji,i love to bake breads lot,but just trying,well made and presented.
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Lavi Raj
July 04, 2013 at 8:00 am

Superb foccacia! Our favorite is tomato topped along with lots of oregano!
Glad you remembered and tried it!
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ramya
July 04, 2013 at 8:07 am

lovely foccacia, but I think 3rd& 4th row pictures are swapped.
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Anupama Pasumarthy
July 04, 2013 at 8:08 am

Sounds great! What's bread flour made of? Is all-purpose flour a replacement?
P.S. The pictures don't seem to be in the right sequence.
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Feng Shui
July 04, 2013 at 8:10 am

Is maida a substitute for bread flour and pls tell me exactly what is bread flour.
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Shama Nagarajan
July 04, 2013 at 8:44 am

too tempting...
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Sowmya Sundararajan
July 04, 2013 at 9:06 am

Lovely bread Raji
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Pavithra Lakshminarasimhan
July 04, 2013 at 9:11 am

very new one! btw, in step wise pics 5,6 & 7,8 are rearranged.. hope you don't mind, it is little confusing
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Akila
July 04, 2013 at 9:37 am

Lovely focassia recipe...
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JEYASHRI SURESH
July 04, 2013 at 9:54 am

They turned out perfect and i would love to have a bite . Nicely composed
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Nivedhanams Sowmya
July 04, 2013 at 9:57 am

delicious!!! have come out perfectly!!!
Sowmya
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Raks anand
July 04, 2013 at 9:59 am

Yes sure you can try
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Raks anand
July 04, 2013 at 10:00 am

Oops sorry will change it
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Raks anand
July 04, 2013 at 10:01 am

Yeah mistake. Will change it thanks
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Surkhab
July 04, 2013 at 10:11 am

Simple and Tasty treat and perfecttly baked. Looks amazing Rak's
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Raks anand
July 04, 2013 at 10:44 am

Bread flour is nothing but more refined maida (all purpose flour). So you can sure replace it with all purpose flour.
Thanks for noticing, changed now 🙂
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Hari Chandana P
July 04, 2013 at 10:46 am

Looks absolutely tempting. yummy!!
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Veena Theagarajan
July 04, 2013 at 12:18 pm

nicely done so tempting.. can I hv some ?
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Priti S
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July 04, 2013 at 12:20 pm

I like focaccia too and yours looks fab
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dassana
July 04, 2013 at 2:58 pm

they look so good. i have been trying to get bread flour here. but still not found out where 🙁
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Guru Wadhwa
July 04, 2013 at 4:30 pm

amazing they look tender, and gr8 share, and as always elegant clicks
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Vimitha Anand
July 04, 2013 at 6:16 pm

Have to try this soon. nice one
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Priya Suresh
July 04, 2013 at 8:15 pm

Well baked and extremely inviting focaccia..
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Nancy Desai
July 04, 2013 at 8:40 pm

Hi!! Simply delicious recipe which I am going to try soon. However if I don't have instant yeast but plain old dry active yeast, any change of method as well as quantity that I should follow? Please advise. Which brand in India(Mumbai) specifically sells Instant yeast as well as Breadflour?
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Raks anand
July 05, 2013 at 12:10 am

Updated under notes,last point...kindly refer that. thanks for asking.
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Hamaree Rasoi
July 05, 2013 at 4:15 am

Foccacia looks simply awesome.
Deepa
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Anupama Pasumarthy
July 05, 2013 at 1:16 pm

Oh, good!
Hey, your site is just SO AWESOME. Every time I need inspiration to cook, I come here and just scroll through the Recipe Index! <3 I recently started baking after seeing your recipes. Keep up the great work! And, I would love to see more international recipes! :]
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Harini M
July 05, 2013 at 2:50 pm

Wonderful one :)While substituting bread flour with maida,shouldn't we be adding baking powder?,i am very interested in trying this 🙂
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Sowmya D.S.L
July 05, 2013 at 4:53 pm

Foccacia looks yummy raks.. Bookmarking it.. Thanks for sharing 🙂
And yea as usual lovely clicks !!
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Asha Shivakumar
July 05, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Focaccia is one of our favorite bread. This looks good.
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Gayathri Ramanan
July 06, 2013 at 12:18 am

focaccia looks so perfect and delicious
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sujatha thamby
July 06, 2013 at 12:56 pm

hi raks,
tried the recipe tweeked a little and added mixed herbs to the dough.great recipe.tnx
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SHARMILEE J
July 10, 2013 at 2:09 pm

Looks great...perfect texture, lovely clicks!!
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Preeti Kashyap
July 11, 2013 at 11:04 am

Soobar as usual raks!!! I love burnt onion...s maybe I will fry them like u did....
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Supreetha Niranjan
November 08, 2013 at 2:49 am

Hi Raks, i am a new bee to your site, have tried Tomsto soup, rava idli, podi chutney... All came out very well.. but with Focaccia i faced few problems, my dried yeast dint proof, if you know a good brand for dried / instant yeast in India, please let me know. will be very helpful of you.
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Supreetha Niranjan
November 08, 2013 at 4:09 am

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sms
February 26, 2014 at 2:53 pm

only olive oil or we can use any other oil?
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Raks anand
February 26, 2014 at 2:59 pm

Olive oil is the best for this recipe to give the flavor. In fact, they eat it dipped in olive oil!>
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sreelakshmi sujit
July 08, 2015 at 12:35 am

Hi raks
Pls mention the shelf life for focaccia
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Raks anand
July 08, 2015 at 12:44 am

Only a day.
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Naga Lakshmi
February 17, 2018 at 11:55 pm

Can we make it without yeast
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Raks Kitchen
February 19, 2018 at 4:41 am

I haven't tried without yeast. It won't turn out good if you skip in this recipe.
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