Oh my focaccia pizza love!

It’s National Pizza Day and I’m bringing the focaccia dough!

Let’s start with this easy, soft, no knead focaccia pizza dough, in a glass bowl (this one is from Amazon), so you can see what happening. Here are the

Ingredients:

• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp (or 1/2 a packet) instant yeast
• 1 1/4 cup water
• 3 tbsp olive oil

It’s important to put the salt on the opposite side of yeast because salt kills yeast so we don’t want them co-mingling just yet. The sugar helps the yeast grow into beautiful pizza dough so make sure they’re in a relationship.

Random side note but I’m so obsessed with these Gold Measuring Spoons from Amazon!

Whisk the side with sugar and yeast a little bit into the flour and the salt too on the other side and then bring them together with the oil and water and a wooden spoon (this ones from Amazon).

It’s a wet dough, which another reason we don’t really knead this beautiful dough.

Then you’ll want to cover your focaccia dough and let her rest for about a half hour. If you’re feeling restless, you can fold the focaccia dough every 10 minutes while it’s in the bowl to give it a little extra help with some bubblies.

Then transfer your focaccia dough to the pan you’re going to bake your focaccia pizza in. I used a metal 13×9 because it makes a thicker pizza and the metal helps with conducting heat so it gets crispy on the edges. Make sure to use Pamela on the pan and then add about a tbsp on olive oil on the bottom of the pan too.

Once you’ve left your focaccia dough rest 8-10 hours (I usually just do it the night before so she can rise while I rest), gently pull off the cling wrap. It may try and stick a titch but you can easily and gently guide the dough off and back to itself.

I also went around the sides and pushed the sides down from the pan to make it more uniform.

I used my Cauliflower Bolognese for this focaccia pizza but you can certainly use any sauce of your choosing. Just make sure you’re gentle with spreading it so you don’t bust the airy focaccia dough you just made.

And then my favorite part (next to eating the pizza), is making indents into the focaccia dough with my fingers! It makes more bubbly fluffy dough!

You can top your focaccia pizza with anything you want, but one of my fave tricks to make a delicious pizza is adding some provolone with the mozzarella. It’s a trick I learned from my grandma! Then bake your pizza in a preheated 475°F oven. I preheat mine with a baking sheet in it and then put the pizza pan on top, that way it helps to crisp the bottom of the focaccia pizza. Focaccia Pizza will need to bake for about 25 minutes until the cheese is bubbly and the crust is crispy!

Once your focaccia pizza has cooled for a few minutes, you’ll want to transfer it to a cooling rack so the bottom of your pizza doesn’t get soggy. The easiest way is to use pliers to hold the hot pan and then gently guide it out with a large spatula. You can just use an oven mitt instead of the pliers but baby those pliers make it so easy to hold and less awkward!

I find that using a serrated knife to cut through that thick fluffy focaccia pizza crust is easier than a pizza cutter.

My favorite part is watch when you squish the focaccia…

She pops back up!

Fun!

I think focaccia pizza may be my new favorite way to make pizza at home! I hope you get the chance to try this airy fluffy focaccia pizza dough recipe too! If you do, I’d love to see your creations on my social media!

Ok love you bye

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