Strawberry Rosemary Focaccia with Maple Glaze
Strawberry rosemary Focaccia with Maple Glaze. An unusual combination of flavours in this sweet focaccia.
Servings 10 piece
Ingredients
- 3 ¼ cups Bread flour
- 2 ¼ teaspoons Active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Sugar
- 1 ½ cups water luke warm
- 250 gms Strawberry
- 1.5 tbsp Rosemary Dried
- 6 tablespoons Olive oil
For Glaze
- 1 cup Icing Sugar
- ¼ cup Maple Syrup
- 2 Milk tbspns
Instructions
- In a big mixing bowl add 1 cup luke warm water. Add sugar. Mix well. Add yeast mix. Let the mixture stand for 10 minutes and allow the yeast to froth.
- Then add salt,Flour and .5 tbsp rosemary. Mix with a wooden spatula . Turn the dough on to a floured surface.Knead for 5 - 8 minutes.
- The dough will be smooth and elastic. Grease well a bowl with oil and place the kneaded dough. Wrap with a cling wrap or a wet kitchen towel. Keep in a warm place to rise until it doubles ( about 1- 1.5 hours).
- Once it has risen, punch down. Lightly knead the dough for 1 minute.
- Oil the bottom of a 12 inch tray with 4 tbsp Olive Oil. Place the dough on the Pan. Coat it with oil. Then flip to coat other side of the dough as well.
- Gentely press the dough towards the corner of the tray and fit the bottom of the pan.
- Place halved strawberries cut side down on top. Gentely press them towards inside ( Not very deep as I did, once baked they berries will shrink). Cover and let it rise for for 1 hour more.
- Mean while pre-heat oven to 220 C. At the end rising period drizzle remaining 2 tbsp of oil. Sprinkle rest of the rosemary on top.
- Bake in the middle rack for 30 -35 minutes until it is golden-brown and crisp on top. Take out of the oven and let it cool slightly.
- Meanwhile prepare the glaze by mixing all the ingridents mentioned under glaze.
- Once the bread is almost cool drizzle the glaze on top. Serve.
