This is a delicious, easy sourdough cherry tomato focaccia for those who want to try something new. It has a crunchy exterior and a light and fluffy interior and comes with roasted tomatoes packed full of flavors. The best part about this recipe is that you will be using your sourdough starter, which will add some depth to the dish.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Doesn’t need any commercially available yeast
Longer fermentation results in superior taste and texture
Easy shaping process for beginners
Great finish
This was inspired by my No-knead sourdough foccacia on this site, and and also with this chocolate skillet sourdough foccacia.
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Ingredients for making easy sourdough cherry tomato focaccia
You need the following ingredients to make this easy sourdough cherry tomato focaccia.
- All purpose flour : I used unbleached all purpose flour for this recipe
- Splet flour
- Sourdough Starter: I have
- Honey
- Salt
- Water
- Olive oil
- Cherry tomato
- Rosemary
- Garlic
- Basil leaves
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions
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- Step 1: All purpose flour, splet flour , salt, honey, water and sourdough starter,
- Step 2: After bulk ferementation
- Step 3: Press the dough into sheet pan.
- Step 4: Spread with oil and cherry tomato,garlic, basil leaves and rosemary.
How to serve this focaccia
Serve warm with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Pair with soups or salads
Slice for sandwiches
Enjoy as a snack straight from the pan
Substitutions
For making this focaccia recipe, you can substitute any ingredient according to what is available in your pantry: all-purpose flour for bread flour and sourdough starter for yeast to make things easier. You can use grape tomatoes or even dried tomatoes for the cherry tomatoes, and other herbs like thyme and basil if you do not want rosemary. You can also use avocado oil or butter instead of olive oil.
Storage
For short-term storage, keep the focaccia at room temperature in a tightly sealed bag for 2 days or store it in the refrigerator for 5 days. Focaccia can also be frozen for more extended storage and then baked to regain its texture.
Top Tip
The key to making delicious focaccia is liberal drizzling of olive oil and resting the dough prior to baking.
I have made this easy sourdough cherry tomato focaccia as a part of
This month, Breadbaker's event: Italian bread.
- Cornetti Dolci (Italian Croissants) from Karen's Kitchen Stories
- Focaccia Bread Art from Making Miracles
- No-Knead Green Chutney Focaccia from Cook with Renu
- No Knead Potato Focaccia from Sneha's Recipe
- Overnight Ciabatta from A Messy Kitchen
- Overnight Focaccia from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Sfincione Siciliano from Food Lust People Love
- Sourdough Cherry Tomato Focaccia from Zesty South Indian Kitchen
FAQ
It may need more fermentation time or better gluten development through stretch and folds.
Yes, but the flavor will be milder and less complex.
Use plenty of olive oil and bake at a high temperature.
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More foccacia and flat bread recipes:
Pairing
These are my favorite dishes :
Easy Sourdough Cherry Tomato Focaccia
Ingredients
- 90 g ½ cup active starter
- 300 g 1 ¼ cup water
- 20 g 1 tablespoon honey
- 450 g 3 .75cup all-purpose flour
- 50 g ¼ cup spelt flour
- 9 g 1 ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 45 g 3 tablespoon olive oil
- Toppings
- Rosemary
- Cherry tomatoes halved
- Garlic cloves with cover intact
- Salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl add all purpose flour, spelt flour, water, salt, honey and sourdough starter and mix well and set aside.
- After 1 hour do stretch and fold the dough.
- Then repeat the stretch and fold after another hour.
- Then set the douugh for about 3 hours and set aside until it doubled
- Pre-heat oven to 425F/220C
- Gently stretch the dough and make dimple in the dough place halved cherry tomatoes, rosemary sprigs and garlic cloves.
- Bake it in pre-heated oven for 23-30 minutes or until it becomes crisp and golden brown in color.
- Let it cool down and enjoy
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Razvan says
Made this sourdough cherry tomato focaccia and it turned out amazing! Soft inside, golden on top, and so easy to enjoy warm from the oven. I’ll definitely bake it again.
Sabrina says
This is SO delicious. Focaccia is one of my favorite foods, now made with sourdough is even better!
Joana says
This focaccia is pure perfection! The sourdough gives it such great flavor and texture. Topped with cherry tomatoes and flaky salt – absolutely delicious straight from the oven.
Lily says
The whole family loved this focaccia!
Jen says
Very nice focaccia! Love that there is some spelt flour in it. The topping were just perfect. It's a keeper!
Kenny says
The sourdough tang with those juicy cherry tomatoes was honestly next level. It had that perfect golden crunch on the outside and stayed so fluffy inside. Definitely a new favorite!
CookWithRenu says
Lovely colour on the focaccia, I love sourdough breads, and I wish I were your neighbour.
Wendy M. Klik says
Loving the flavor profile you chose.
hobby baker Kelly says
That is a fantastic crumb, both chewy and fluffy! What a wonderful sourdough focaccia.
Karen's Kitchen Stories says
I love your perfectly browned crust and the crumb with the nice uneven holes. This is focaccia goals! Beautiful.
Stacy says
The roasted tomatoes are beautiful as well as tasty! Lovely focaccia, Swathi!