Focaccia Bread Recipe For Fancy Sandwiches Or a Traditional Appetizer

Focaccia bread is an Italian flat bread enhanced with herbs, cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and/or olives. It makes a nice appetizer and can be used to make sandwiches. It starts with a very basic dough that can be used for a pizza crust, but, after a slightly different preparation and added toppings, it becomes focaccia bread.

You have some flexibility when making focaccia bread to suit your personal taste for toppings. You can load it up with everything or make a very spare version with only a bit of cheese and herbs.

Bread dough ingredients:

1-1/3 cups hot water
1 package or 1 Tablespoon active dry yeast
3-1/2 to 4 cups all purpose flour
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
1 Tablespoon sugar