No-Knead Focaccia With Sausage, Apple and Shallots

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By Becky Krystal

This no-knead focaccia channels the flavors of Thanksgiving stuffing (or dressing) successful a large-format bread. It's tender and fluffy, cleanable for sopping up gravy oregon braising liquid (see the related turkey recipe). And due to the fact that it's truthful precise thick, you tin portion the extras successful fractional horizontally to make the cleanable conveyance for a post-Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich.

We loved the classical illustration of sausage, apple, shallots and sage, but you tin usage immoderate toppings you like, arsenic agelong arsenic they'll navigator done successful the cook time. Or precook them arsenic needed.

Dough look adapted from "Artisan Pizza and Flatbread successful Five Minutes a Day," by Zoe François and Jeff Hertzberg (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011), arsenic posted connected ArtisanBreadInFive.com; toppings by unit writer Becky Krystal.

Ingredients

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Servings: 16 (makes 1 13-by-18-inch bread)

  • 7 1/2 cups (1022 grams) unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 3 1/4 cups (770 milliliters) positive 1 tablespoonful lukewarm water, divided
  • 1/2 cupful (120 milliliters) positive 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoonful dried instant yeast (not accelerated rise)
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons good oversea oregon array salt
  • 12 ounces to 15 ounces mild oregon blistery Italian sausage (bulk crushed oregon removed from casings), separated into 3/4- to 1-inch pieces
  • 1 tiny pome (about 6 ounces), cored and chopped into 1/8-inch wedges
  • 2 shallots, halved lengthwise and chopped into 1/8-inch wedges
  • 1/4 cupful caller sage leaves
  • Flaky oversea salt, for sprinkling (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per 2-piece serving

  • Calories

    395

  • Fat

    16 g

  • Saturated Fat

    3 g

  • Carbohydrates

    52 g

  • Sodium

    494 mg

  • Cholesterol

    13 mg

  • Protein

    9 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Dough look adapted from "Artisan Pizza and Flatbread successful Five Minutes a Day," by Zoe François and Jeff Hertzberg (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011), arsenic posted connected ArtisanBreadInFive.com; toppings by unit writer Becky Krystal.

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published November 9, 2021

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Updated March 17, 2026

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