Making homemade focaccia is one of the easiest breads you can make at home! Adding tangy feta cheese and seasonal butternut squash as a topper turns this into a table centerpiece at any autumnal dinner party.
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp olive oil +more for drizzling
- 1 1/2 cups warm water (110-115 degrees F)
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 packet active dry yeast
- 6-8 butternut squash circular slices, thinly sliced
- 6-8 fresh sage leaves
- 1/2 cup - 1 cup Athenos Traditional Feta Cheese Crumbles
- maldon sea salt
Method
- Grease a 9×13 baking pan evenly with a light coat of olive oil.
- In a stand mixer fitter with dough hook, combine warm water, olive oil, honey, salt, flour, and yeast. Mix for 60 seconds, the dough will be very sticky.
- Transfer dough to the prepared baking sheet, cover with a cloth and rise for 1 hour in a warm, dry place.
- Preheat the oven to 375 F. Poke holes in the top of the dough with your fingers and drizzle lightly with olive oil. Top dough evenly with Athenos feta cheese crumbles and arrange butternut squash slices to overlap as small pumpkins. Place a sage leaf into the center of the pumpkin as a stem. Drizzle butternut squash slices with olive oil and bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Remove bread from the oven and sprinkle with maldon flaky sea salt before serving.