Focaccia di Recco

Name: Focaccia di Recco
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1⅔ cups (9 ounces), bread flour; ¾ teaspoon, table salt; ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons, water; ¼ cup plus 2 teaspoons, extra-virgin olive oil, divided; 12 ounces (1¼ cups) stracchino, cheese; ⅛ teaspoon, flake sea salt, crumbled

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2023

Main Courses

Italian

Pizza

Pizza-like focaccia di Recco is crisp, chewy, and laden with molten cheese.

SERVES6

TIME1¼ hours, plus 45 minutes resting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Focaccia di Recco—the focaccia-by-name, pizza-by-feel, cheese-stuffed flatbread that's deeply cherished in its eponymous hometown—consists of two sheets of paper-thin, crisp-chewy dough sandwiching molten cheese. Using high-protein bread fl...

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