I Tried Paul Hollywood’s Focaccia Recipe, and I Gave It a Handshake
Laura Scherb · tasteofhome.com · 2025
Against 261 focaccia recipes
More yeast than 86% of recipes and no sugar, unlike 50%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 261 focaccia recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More yeast than 86% of recipes: 2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
- Olive oil in the middle half of recipes: 5.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
Ingredients (11)
- 500 grams strong white bread flour500 g
- 8 grams fine salt8 g
- 10 grams instant dried yeast10 g
- 30 milliliters olive oil, plus extra for oiling≈ 28 g
- 370 milliliters water≈ 371 g
- 75 grams pitted Kalamata black olives75 g
- 1 small red onionn/a
- 10 cherry tomatoesn/a
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano≈ 15 g
- Flaky sea saltn/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- About 150 milliliters olive oil, to drizzle≈ 138 g
flour 500 gbatter 1006 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 261 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water74% · 54th percentile · median 72%
- Olive oil5.5% · 24th percentile · median 10%
- Salt1.6% · 24th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast2% · 88th percentile · median 1.2%
- Sugar0% · 25th percentile · median 0.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 425°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 24 minutes
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