Cheddar Jalapeno Focaccia is a beautifully crisp and crunchy bread with grated cheddar cheese and pungent spicy jalapeno chillies. Sharp cheddar cheese and spicy jalapeno makes super combination in this soft and flavourful focaccia bread!
Focaccia (pronounced foh-kah-chuh) is one of my favourite guilty pleasures because there are so many ways to customize it. I love the distinctive flavours of this Italian bread and often make it over the weekends. Focaccia is incredibly easy to make! It is a moist dough that is quick and easy to knead. It is a flat bread, so it cooks quickly and evenly! Adding jalapenos and cheddar cheese just makes it even better.
Although focaccia is super easy to make, you have to plan the timing carefully as needs ‘rise’ time and also ‘resting time’ for the deep flavours to develop. The wait is definitely worth it! As with most of the focaccia I prepare at home, the dough for this cheddar jalapeno focaccia is prepared the night before and rested in fridge for the flavours and also for the perfect chewy taste. Cold, refrigerated dough is the secret to making delicious focaccia! Allowing the dough to rest 18 to 48 hours in the fridge will yield extra-pillowy and airy focaccia, though if you are pressed for time, you can make this start-to-finish in 3 hours. The next day- Literally all you will be doing is adding the topping and baking it!
This Cheddar Jalapeno Focaccia is quite simple to prepare, bake and tastes great on its own or with a bowl of soup. The jalapenos give a spicy kick to the bread and cheese gives a soft, chewy flavour.
Other Italian recipes worth trying are Focaccia, Vanilla Panna Cotta, Florentine Spinach Bean Pizza Strips, Classic Basil Pesto, Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe, Mushroom Risotto with Parmesan Crisp and Vegetable Pesto Spaghetti to name a few.
