Make this easy three-ingredient Foccacia bread tonight. Do you make your bread from scratch? I do, but not the kind you are probably thinking. I love all kinds of homemade bread, but I’m not a big planner, and bread takes time and planning. So lately, I’ve been making the easiest focaccia bread based on the Weight Watchers recipe for two-ingredient pizza dough.
If you are new to reading MLT, I share my favorite things of the week with my friends Mary Ann Pickett and Cindy Hattersley every Sunday. This simple focaccia bread is my number one favorite thing of the week!
What makes it focaccia bread?
When I think of focaccia, I think of a scraggly piece of bread that’s not too thick (although I guess it can be) and has holes or indentations all over the top that holds the olive oil. To me, the holes make it focaccia over, say, just pizza dough.
What are the best toppings?
Toppings are anything you have on hand!
Anything that you have on hand. That’s the beauty of focaccia bread. It’s very forgiving. I like cherry tomatoes, olives, onions, and fresh herbs. You could even top it with small roasted potatoes if it’s more of a meal.
But why not make it beautiful, and decorate it with tomato flowers?
Of course, you can use fresh herbs and olives or just a little salt, which would still be delicious, but why not have some fun? I had a small container of tiny tomatoes that I halved (although you could leave them whole), and I used the green parts of green onions as the leaves and stems. It’s useful to have kitchen scissors, but a knife would work too!
Does focaccia bread have yeast?
Yes and no. This recipe is the more traditional recipe for focaccia bread. I used to make it all the time until I discovered the simple Weight Watchers recipe. I still often make this pizza dough, so making the focaccia bread seemed like a good idea. It’s easy, and you can make it with as few as three ingredients. I think that’s pretty cool. Something so simple but so delicious!
So, what three ingredients do you need to make this super easy recipe that will save you from a boring weeknight meal?
- Greek yogurt
- Self-rising flour or you can make your own self-rising flour
- olive oil
Do I need to buy self-rising flour?
No, I have never bought self-rising flour. You can make your own. Add 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt for every cup of flour. That’s it! I currently have white, wheat, almond, and coconut flour in my pantry. I have a box of cake flour for making Madeleine’s too! I’m not looking to add one more kind of flour when I can make it so easily.
Print3 ingredient focaccia bread
This recipe is based on the 2-ingredient pizza dough from weight watchers.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: bread, rustic
- Method: easy
- Cuisine: italian
Ingredients
- One cup self-rising flour OR 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- 1 cup non-fat plain Greek Yogurt
- olive oil
- toppings optional
Instructions
- Combine the flour and yogurt and stir to combine.
- Take the dough and form a ball.
- Place it in the bottom of an oiled pan or skillet
- Press it out evenly and make indentations into the dough with your finger making sure you don’t go all the way through.
- Drizzle olive oil over the top (and any toppings) and bake in a 425º oven for about 20 minutes or until it starts to brown a little.
- Remove from the pan and cut into slices. Serve immediately or reheat in foil. I think it’s best served warm.
Notes
So good and so easy! I like making it in a cast-iron skillet, but any pan will work. The cast-iron browns the bottom to perfection.
Make this easy three-ingredient Foccacia bread tonight and decorate it with some tiny tomatoes and green onions to make a floral pattern. It’s so much more fun that way.
More Favorites:
Books and Magazines
Rose Tarlow: Three Houses
I received two books and a magazine this week! It reminded me of taking a stack of books and magazines to the beach. There’s still nothing like the real thing, right?
Cindy sent Mary Ann and me each a copy of the gorgeous Rose Tarlow, Three Houses book. It’s a big book inside a slipcase, and each page is so beautiful!
Terrain: The House Plant Book
Terrain sent me their new book: The Houseplant Book. A lovely book that’s both inspiring and helpful. There’s information on caring for your plants and a guide to cultivating and collecting the most sought-after plants.
It inspired me to start propagating some plants using the propagation wall we built last year!
Feel Free Magazine
Leanne Ford’s Feel Free Magazine is so cool! It has filled me with inspiration for a few upcoming projects!
Serena & Lily is having a sale!
So many items in our house, from our dining room chairs, entryway bench and mirror, cooper stools, dip-dyed stools, lamps and pendants, rugs, sheets, towels, and pillows, are all from Serena & Lily.
You might like this post where I show two types of dining chairs in our New Canaan kitchen nook.
Annie this looks so good! I will try this and I love the idea of the hostess gift too. Great you can use what’s in the pantry to make something special. x Kim
Thank you so much for explaining how to make self-rising flour. I pinned the recipe to definitely try it!!! That’s great that your recipe plugin is pinnable. I need to ask you about that.
The Serena and Lily sale is so good. I bought that bench for the den of our bed~
Annie, Love the tomato flower focaccia bread. When the weather in the PNW forecasts more winter gloom, this cheerful pizza with only a few ingredients and calories will be perfect.
Your new books look inspirational. Enjoy!
Warmly Diney on Mercer Island, WA
Looking forward to another of your stellar recipes, Annie.
Diney
Diney, this is the perfect side with a salad or soup in any weather but especially gloomy winter days! xx
Lovely post thank you Annie. Love the focaccia bread recipe. l sent it to my daughter and her fella as he got a “new “ vintage skillet for his birthday and he would love to make this.
Happy day !
This sounds perfect for a “new” vintage skillet! Thanks for reading, Francesca! xx
Annie, that bread looks so good and the way you decorated it … beyond! So bright and cheery … perfect for a cold, wintery day. I had no idea about making self-rising flour. Thanks for the tip! xo
I’m not sure where I saw that about self-rising flour, but it makes you wonder why anyone would bother buying it!!
This looks as delicious as it is beautiful Annie – you make everything look so lovely and effortless!