Rosemary Focaccia
Instead of making pizza, we use our simple food processor pizza dough (or substitute store-bought pizza dough) to make quick focaccia breads. The dough is stretched into rounds and flavored with olive oil, rosemary and salt. Quick and delicious! Originally served as part of: Focaccia!.
Ingredients
- 1 recipe food processor pizza dough
- extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 sprig fresh, 4-inch sprig rosemary (cleaned, destemmed, and snipped with scissors)
- salt & pepper
Instructions
We make our food processor pizza dough and let rise for an hour. As if we were making pizza, the dough is then punched down, and divided into quarters.
Working on a parchment covered cookie sheet, we work with one piece of dough at a time. A little olive oil is spread on the parchment and the dough rolled in it. We spread out the dough (about a quarter of an inch thick) and move on to the next piece of dough.
Once the four doughs are ready, we let rest for 5 minutes. Many recipes leave the doughs to rise again at this point for about an hour, but we are impatient tonight! We just leave it long enough to preheat the oven to 425°.
When the oven is hot, we press each of the dough rounds with the tips of our fingers to make pock marks. We liberally drizzle on oil and top with coarse salt and rosemary.
We cook for 15 minutes until the focaccia are golden brown. We let cool for a few minutes, adding freshly ground black pepper, and serve with dipping oil.
Ingredients
- 1 recipe pizza dough (food processor)
- extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 rosemary sprig (4 inches, leaves snipped)
- coarse salt
- black pepper (freshly ground)
Instructions
What's a kid job?
A Kid job is a step kids can help with, with a grown-up nearby, not one they do on their own. Every kid is different, so go by what your child can do rather than by age. Roughly:
- Little ones (about 2 to 4) can stir, pour in ingredients a grown-up has measured, tear lettuce, wash vegetables and sprinkle toppings.
- Older kids (about 5 to 8) can also measure and level, crack eggs, whisk, roll and cut out dough, and put things together.
- Bigger kids can read the recipe aloud, keep track of the timer, and take on more of the cooking as they're ready.
Steps with a knife, microplane, skewers, stove, oven, grill or hot oil, or with raw meat, poultry or seafood, are marked Grown-up. Kids can still watch those, from a safe distance.
Make the pizza dough and let it rise for 1 hour. Punch it down and divide it into quarters.
Spread a little oil on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Roll one piece of dough in the oil and spread it out about ¼ inch thick. Repeat with the other pieces.
Let the dough rest 5 minutes while the oven heats to 425°F. Many recipes let it rise again for an hour, but we were impatient.
Kid job
Press your fingertips all over each round to make dimples. Drizzle generously with oil and top with the salt and rosemary.
Grown-up
Bake for 15 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool a few minutes, grind on some pepper, and serve with dipping oil.