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Olive Oil Walnut Garlic Rosemary Foccacia

Nothing better than fresh home baked bread, and this Olive Oil Walnut Garlic Rosemary Foccacia is bursting with flavour. The Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer and their great quality bake-ware make baking breads so therapeutic, so fuss free. Use herbs and nuts of your choice, play around with ingredients, but do make this.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Course Appetiser, Snack
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2 loaves

Ingredients
  

Starter

  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 1 tsp dried active yeast

Garlic Rosemary Dough

  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 1/2 cup wholewheat flour
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin oilve oil
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tsp dried rosemary
  • 1 tsp rock salt

Topping

  • 1/2 cup walnut halves roughly broken
  • 1/4 cup green olives/ sliced
  • Few sprigs fresh rosemary
  • Himalayan pink rock salt
  • Extra virgin olive oil to drizzle over

Instructions
 

Starter

  • Place warm water, honey and yeast in bowl of stand mixer. Stir and leave for 5-10 minutes.

Garlic Rosemary Dough

  • Add remaining ingredients to bowl of KA stand mixer fitted with dough hook. Stir to mix on speed 2, then knead for 5-7 minutes on speed 4 until the dough is smooth and elastic. Add a few spoons of wholewheat flour if the dough is too wet, or a tbsp or two of water if too dense. We are looking for a soft dough.
  • Form into a ball, drizzle over with a little olive oil, cover the bowl with cling-wrap or a wet kitchen towel. Leave to rise in a warm, draft free place for an hour or two until doubled.
  • Preheat oven to 200C.
  • Divide dough into 2, knock back a little and make 2 balls. Flatten gently into the base of a lightly oiled round baking tin. I used the Kitchen Aid non stick 9" pie pan. All their bakeware is excellent.

Topping

  • Make indents into the surface, generously pour over extra virgin olive oil, allowing it to get into the indents.
  • Scatter fresh rosemary, walnuts, olives and Himalayan pink rock salt over the top.
  • Drizzle a little more extra virgin olive oil over.
  • Leave covered with a kitchen towel until the oven preheats.
  • Bake for approximately 30 minutes until golden brown and done. Serve warm or at room temperature.