Classically, a focaccia is just drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and herbs before baking. If you want something a little less traditional, you can try different vegetable varieties. Usually, most people go for tomato and olives. But in general, there are few limits to creativity when it comes to cooking!
That’s why today we are presenting a recipe for mini focaccia with potatoes, goat’s cheese & cream cheese that brings flavourful variety to the plate. The potato and cream cheese topping transforms the focaccia from a side dish to a main course in just a few simple steps.
Mix the dry yeast with the wheat flour in a large mixing bowl.
Gradually add the oil, lukewarm water and syrup to the flour and knead the resulting dough well.
At the end, knead in the sea salt and knead the dough well again for a few minutes by hand or with a food processor.
Cover the dough in the mixing bowl and leave to rise at room temperature for about 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes of resting, divide the dough into 8 pieces and knead each piece well again. Then form 8 balls from the dough pieces.
Line a baking tray with baking paper and drizzle the baking paper with oil and sprinkle with a little sea salt. Place the balls on the tray and flatten them to about 1.5 cm with the palm of your hand. Leave the flattened dough pieces to rest again for 30 minutes.
While the dough rests one last time, peel the potatoes and cut them into very thin slices with a peeler. Spread the potato slices on the yeast dough pieces and then spread the goat’s cheese, cream cheese and rosemary on the potatoes. Finally, spread the remaining oil (approx. 30 ml) over the foccacias and the tray.
Tip: If there are any potato slices left over, you can simply spread them between the foccacias on the tray and bake them as well. These potatoes should of course also be drizzled with the oil so that the potatoes bake well.
Preheat the oven to 220° C top/bottom heat.
Put the prepared baking tray into the preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.
After baking, allow to cool briefly and sprinkle with yeast flakes to finish.
Enjoy your meal!
Need more yeast flakes? We also have 500g packs!