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- 0:00Speaker 1: Focaccia with pisto and strachino is a soft, fragrant focacca
- 0:05Speaker 1: topped with creamy cheese and fresh basil pesto. It suits
- 0:10Speaker 1: four servings. Prep time about thirty minutes, cook time about
- 0:16Speaker 1: thirty five minutes, rising time about three hours. For the dough,
- 0:23Speaker 1: you need two hundred grams of Manitoba flour, three hundred
- 0:28Speaker 1: grams of type zero zero flour, three hundred grams of water,
- 0:33Speaker 1: twenty five grams of extra virgin olive oil, ten grams
- 0:37Speaker 1: of fine salt, fifteen grams of fresh brewers yeast. For
- 0:43Speaker 1: shaping and seasoning the focacca, you need sixty grams of
- 0:48Speaker 1: extra virgin olive oil in total, forty grams to spread
- 0:52Speaker 1: on the surface of the dough, twenty grams to grease
- 0:55Speaker 1: the baking pan, three hundred grams of strachino cheese. For
- 1:01Speaker 1: the basil pesto, you need fifty grams of fresh basil
- 1:05Speaker 1: leaves about two cups, twenty grams of pine nuts about
- 1:10Speaker 1: two and a half tablespoons, twenty grams of grana padano
- 1:14Speaker 1: pido cheese, twenty grams of pecorino romano pido cheese, eighty
- 1:21Speaker 1: grams of extra virgin olive oil, about six tablespoons fine
- 1:26Speaker 1: salt as needed. Start with the dough in a large bowl.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Pour the Type zero zero flour and the Manitoba flour.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Add the fresh brewers yeast crumbled. Pour in the water
- 1:42Speaker 1: and start mixing with circular motions. Add the extra virgin
- 1:47Speaker 1: olive oil, Add the fine salt, and mix again until
- 1:51Speaker 1: the ingredients come together. Transfer the dough to the work surface.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Knead for about ten minutes without adding flour, until the
- 2:01Speaker 1: dough becomes smooth and elastic. Shape the dough into a
- 2:05Speaker 1: ball and place it in a clean bowl. Cover the
- 2:09Speaker 1: bowl with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise at room
- 2:13Speaker 1: temperature for about two and a half hours, or until
- 2:15Speaker 1: it has doubled in size. While the dough rises, prepare
- 2:20Speaker 1: the basil pesto in a tall, narrow container. Add the
- 2:24Speaker 1: basil leaves, the pine nuts, the grana padano, and the
- 2:28Speaker 1: pecorino romano cheese. Add fine salt as needed. Pour in
- 2:35Speaker 1: the eighty grams of extra virgin olive oil. Blend for
- 2:39Speaker 1: a few moments until you obtain a smooth, homogeneous pesto.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Set the pesto aside seafood after the rising time, grease
- 2:49Speaker 1: a forty by thirty centimeter baking pan with twenty grams
- 2:53Speaker 1: of extra virgin olive oil. Transfer the risen dough into
- 2:57Speaker 1: the baking pan. Gently stretch the dough with your hands
- 3:02Speaker 1: from the center outwards, without forcing it too much. If
- 3:06Speaker 1: the dough does not cover the entire surface of the pan,
- 3:09Speaker 1: leave it as it is. Cover the pan with plastic wrap.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Let the dough rest again at room temperature for thirty minutes.
- 3:19Speaker 1: After this rest, stretch the dough again so that it
- 3:22Speaker 1: covers the entire surface of the pan. Pour the remaining
- 3:27Speaker 1: forty grams of extra virgin olive oil over the surface.
- 3:31Speaker 1: With your fingertips, press firmly into the dough to form
- 3:34Speaker 1: the classic dimples of focacia. Place the pan in a
- 3:39Speaker 1: conventional oven preheated to four hundred and twenty eight degrees fahrenheit.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Bake for twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, remove the focaca
- 3:49Speaker 1: from the oven. Distribute the strachino cheese on top, tearing
- 3:53Speaker 1: it into pieces with your hands and spreading it evenly
- 3:56Speaker 1: over the surface. Return the pan to the oven at
- 4:00Speaker 1: the same temperature. Bake for another ten to fifteen minutes
- 4:05Speaker 1: until the cheese is well melted and the focacca is golden.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Remove the focacca from the oven. Spoon the basil pesto
- 4:14Speaker 1: over the hot focacca, distributing it evenly. Serve the focacca
- 4:20Speaker 1: with pesto and strichino hot and enjoy its soft texture,
- 4:24Speaker 1: melted cheese and fresh basil aroma