Gluten-Free Focaccia Bread

Name: Gluten-Free Focaccia Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons envelope active dry yeast; 1 large egg, separated; 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh rosemary; 1 teaspoons guar gum; 3 Tbsps olive oil, plus extra for greasing pan and sprinkling; 158 milliliters (129g 4.5oz) potato starch; 1 (102g 2.2oz) cup sweet rice flour; 2 teaspoons fine sea salt, plus extra for sprinkling; 177 milliliters (95g 3.4oz) sorghum flour; 1 Tbsp sugar; 237 milliliters (120g 4.2oz) tapioca flour; 237 milliliters warm water (about 110°F); 1 teaspoon xanthan gum; 1 large Yukon gold potato, peeled and quartered

You can never have too many Mediterranean recipes, so give Gluten-Free Focaccia Bread a try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 4g of protein, 6g of fat, and a total of 224 calories. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have potato starch, tapioca flour, guar gum, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Ricing the potato

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Potato

Put the potato quarters into a large saucepan with cold water and enough salt to make the water taste like the ocean. Bring to a boil, then cook over medium-high heat until a knife inserted into the potato slips out easily, about 20 minutes.

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Potato

Water

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Knife

Drain the potato and set aside. When the potato has cooled enough for you to work with it, press it through a fine-mesh sieve, using the back of a ramekin or a large wooden spoon. (If you own a ricer, use it here.)

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Potato

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Wooden Spoon

Ramekin

Potato Ricer

Sieve

Proofng the yeast

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Yeast

Combine the yeast and sugar in a large wide-mouthed bowl.

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Sugar

Yeast

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Bowl

Add the warm water. (Run the water over the inside of your wrist. When it feels like the temperature of your skin, the water is ready.) Stir together gently. Give the yeast 10 to 15 minutes to proof.

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Water

Yeast

Combining the flours

Sift the tapioca flour, sorghum flour, potato starch, and sweet rice flour through a fine-mesh sieve into the bowl of a stand mixer. Stir in the xanthan gum, guar gum, and salt.

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Guar Gum

Sorghum Flour

Salt

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Stand Mixer

Sieve

Bowl

Making the dough

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Dough

Add the egg yolk, oil, yeasty water, and rosemary to the dry ingredients. Run the stand mixer with a paddle attachment on medium speed until the dough comes together, about 5 minutes. When you first stop the mixer, the dough will look like a firm ball, and then it will start to slump off the paddle attachment. The dough will have the consistency of thick cake batter.

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Egg Yolk

Rosemary

Dough

Water

Cooking Oil

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Stand Mixer

Finishing the dough

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Dough

Beat the egg white until it is stiff. Gently fold it into the dough. Set the bowl in a warm place and allow the dough to rise until it has doubled in size, about 1 hour.

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Egg Whites

Dough

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Bowl

Preparing to bake

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Oven

Preheat the oven to 450°F. Grease both sides of a piece of parchment paper with oil and lay it down in a 9-inch pie pan.

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Cooking Oil

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Baking Paper

Pie Form

Oven

Baking the focaccia

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Focaccia

Push the dough into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a rubber spatula.

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Dough

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Spatula

Frying Pan

Sprinkle on olive oil and sea salt, if you wish. Slide the focaccia into the oven and put a large oven-safe saute pan filled with ice cubes on the rack beneath it.

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Ice Cubes

Olive Oil

Focaccia

Sea Salt

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Oven

Frying Pan

Bake until the top is browned and the internal temperature of the bread reaches at least 180°F, about 25 minutes.

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Bread

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Oven

Cooling the focaccia

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Focaccia

Allow the focaccia to cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes. Tip it onto a wire rack and cool for another 30 minutes. Enjoy.

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Focaccia

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Wire Rack

Frying Pan

If you are allergic to eggs, you can omit the egg here. The focaccia will be a little denser than the version with egg, but it will still taste good.Suggestions:Try using the focaccia to make a sandwich with fig spread, salami, prosciutto, and fresh mozzarella.

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Fresh Mozzarella

Fig Jam

Prosciutto

Focaccia

Salami

Egg

From Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef: A Love Story with 100 Tempting Recipes by Shauna James Ahern & Daniel Ahern. Copyright © 2010 by Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern; photography © 2010 Lara Ferroni. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.