Crafted by hand, baked with passion and served with joy. Our chefs have worked hard to perfect recipes and methods to create baked goods to elevate your meal with punchy flavours to leave you wanting more!

🌟 Star of our lunch menu- The Focaccia

Introducing one of the talented members of the kitchen, our Junior Sous Chef, Ethan. He is responsible for baking our delicious in house focaccia, creating a mouth watering recipe, of which we use for all our signature sandwiches on our Brunch menu. Made in house daily, to ensure the perfect balance of flavours and texture, producing a light and soft bread with a rich garlic golden crust. 

Today we are delighted to share with you our go to recipe, so you can take a little bit of our kitchen into yours. If you prefer a video tutorial head over to our TikTok page where you can find Ethan showing all the steps!

TikTok - @vuduworthing

Ingredients: (makes enough to fill one 21 x 13 x 2.5 inches tin)

  • 12 g instant active dry yeast
  • 10g sugar
  • 20g salt
  • 30ml olive oil
  • 815g tepid water
  • 1kg strong white flour

Method:

  1. Whisk yeast, sugar, salt, olive oil, and water together in a large bowl.
  2. Hand mix in flour until it reaches a 'shaggy' ( a rough, sticky mix)
  3. Cover and leave for 15mins then stretch and fold,  repeat this process once more.
  4. Cover again and leave for 1 hour till the dough has doubled in size
  5. Make a garlic chilli oil (optional to flavour of the focaccia)
  6. Line a shallow gastro or tin of choice with parchment paper, then generously lather the paper base with garlic oil
  7. Gently place focaccia dough into lined tin and fold from left side towards to centre and same for the right. Cover and rest for an hour or till it doubles in size again.
  8. Generously lather oil on top of the risen dough, then dimple all around (use fingers to push holes into the dough creating nice air pockets)
  9. Place in a 220c Degrees oven with a tray of ice in the bottom of the oven to produce steam, this helps create the crispy outer layer.
  10. Bake until the crust is golden brown and the internal temp reaches at least 90c
  11. Place on cooling rack and leave to completely cool before cutting
  12. Enjoy your freshly baked focaccia! We love to use our focaccia as a foundation to a delicious sandwich, however it's also perfect for dipping and this recipe can be altered for different flavours too!

🧑‍🍳 Chefs Top tips:

  • Check the water (used in step 1) is the right temperature by putting your finger in the water and if it feels like it is body temp then it is the right temp
  • When dimpling the dough make sure to create enough holes through the bread and spread out the dimples!

❤️ Bread is best when shared..

We hope this recipe brings comfort into your kitchen and reminds you of visits to Vudu for lunch in Worthing! If you create your own focaccia at home we'd love to see the results, tag us..

@vudu.worthing on Instagram

@VUDU Worthing on facebook

www.vuduworthing.co.uk

If you aren't much of a baker, the oven is always on here at Vudu and there's a fresh sandwich here waiting for you!

- Vudu Blog