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Focaccia with pesto and stracchino

Giallo Zafferano · giallozafferano.com · 2026 · Original

Focacciainferred from the title

DietVegetarian. Not vegan: stracchino cheese 10.6 oz, grana padano pdo cheese 0.7 oz, pecorino romano pdo cheese 0.8 oz.

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Focaccia style, one of 397 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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Focaccia (Italy (generic)): plain focaccia bread with no regional claim: high hydration, oiled sheet pan, dimpled, salt and rosemary; a bread, not a pizza

Tradition: 70 to 85% hydration · 425 to 475°F bake (this recipe: 428°F)

Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

120g

Water

n/a

Hydration

n/a

Salt

n/a

Yeast

n/a

Oil

0%

Sauce

n/a

Cheese

343g

Dough weight

174g

Flour or hydration falls outside the parsable range, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

428°F / 220°C

Bake time

20 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (12)

  • flourManitoba flour Approximately 1 2/3 cups 1.7 cups120g
  • flourType 00 flour 2.4 cupsn/a
  • waterWater 1 ¼n/a
  • oilExtra virgin olive oil 2 tbspn/a
  • saltFine salt 1.7 tspn/a
  • yeastFresh brewer's yeast 0.5 oz14.2g
  • oilExtra virgin olive oil 4 ½40g
  • cheese otherStracchino cheese 10.6 oz301g
  • cheese otherGrana Padano PDO cheese 0.7 oz19.8g
  • cheese otherPecorino Romano PDO cheese 0.8 oz22.7g
  • oilExtra virgin olive oil 6 tbspn/a
  • saltFine salt to tasten/a

Toppings (2)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

  • over cheeseBasil 2 cups
  • over cheesePine nuts 2 ½

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