Dinner · 35 min · Amounts not specified
Skillet focaccia
Dimple the dough, a lot of oil, rosemary, garlic. Hot skillet. The bottom should fry. Olives if you want it Ligurian. Don't treat it like a pizza.
The sheet · one skillet · 35 min
easyWhy tonight. Dimple the dough, a lot of oil, rosemary, garlic. Hot skillet. The bottom should fry. Olives if you want it Ligurian. Don't treat it like a pizza.
What it needs
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- dough
- olive oil
- rosemary
- garlic
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: olives.
Method
- Dimple the dough. A lot of oil, rosemary, garlic in the dimples.
- Hot skillet so the bottom fries. Olives if you want it Ligurian.
- Don't treat it like a pizza. Eat it warm. Salt on top.
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- Bread doughDeveloping gluten and letting fermentation do the flavor, which is mostly a matter of time rather than effort.dense · flat · gummy inside · tore during shaping · over-proofed
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughHow to knead bread doughKing Arthur Baking CompanyHand kneading, and how to tell when the gluten is developed rather than guessing at minutes.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- dough
- Time is the ingredient. A slow cold rise builds flavor that no amount of yeast will fake, and most dough that tastes of nothing was simply rushed.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- rosemary
- Pine and resin, and strong enough to take over.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
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