Olive and Tomato Focaccia
I was recently sent a great little cookbook called The I Love Trader Joe’s College Cookbook. You don’t have to be in college to enjoy this cookbook because it’s filled with quick, easy, and inexpensive recipes that use Trader Joe’s products. If you read my blog, you know I LOVE Trader Joe’s and use many of their products daily. I found this easy olive and tomato focaccia bread recipe, which is simple, quick, and uses very few ingredients. I adapted it by using homemade three-olive tapenade instead of buying some (it’s so easy to make, and I had all the ingredients on hand). This easy focaccia recipe was a big hit with all of us and paired nicely with some pasta al pomodoro and a simple butter lettuce salad.
Olive and Tomato Focaccia
Ingredients:
- 1 (16-oz) bag of pizza dough, at room temperature
- 3 tbsp olive oil (more if needed)
- 3-4 tbsp three-olive tapenade (or store-bought)
- 1 Roma tomato, sliced thinly
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
- Crushed red pepper flakes, to taste
- Dried oregano, to taste
How to Make Olive and Tomato Focaccia:
Open the pizza dough and place it on a floured surface for 20 minutes.
Make the tapenade unless you are using store-bought.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 9×13-inch glass baking dish with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and spread it around the dish. Season the dish with sea salt, freshly cracked pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, and dried oregano to taste.
Gently need the dough a few times then stretch the dough out with your fingers and place it into the baking dish, pressing the dough down into the bottom of the dish.
Use your fingers to punch tiny indentations into the top of the dough.
Drizzle 2 tablespoons of olive oil on top of the dough then spread the tapenade evenly over the top, next layer tomato slices Season with sea salt, freshly cracked pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, and dried oregano to taste.
Bake until the focaccia is puffy and golden, 25-30 minutes.
Cut into pieces and serve. Enjoy.
Equipment
- 9 x 13 Inch Glass Baking Dish
Ingredients
- 1 (16-oz) bag of pizza dough, at room temperature
- 3 tbsp olive oil more if needed
- 3-4 tbsp three-olive tapenade or store-bought
- 1 Roma tomato sliced thinly
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
- Crushed red pepper flakes to taste
- Dried oregano to taste
Instructions
- Open the pizza dough and place it on a floured surface for 20 minutes.
- Make the tapenade unless you are using store-bought.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 9x13-inch glass baking dish with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and spread it around the dish. Season the dish with sea salt, freshly cracked pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, and dried oregano to taste.
- Gently need the dough a few times then stretch the dough out with your fingers and place it into the baking dish, pressing the dough down into the bottom of the dish.
- Use your fingers to punch tiny indentations into the top of the dough.
- Drizzle 2 tablespoons of olive oil on top of the dough then spread the tapenade evenly over the top, next layer tomato slices Season with sea salt, freshly cracked pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, and dried oregano to taste.
- Bake until the focaccia is puffy and golden, 25-30 minutes.
- Cut into pieces and serve. Enjoy.
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looks awesome & delicious!
that looks yum. must try it someday. btw, if i haven't commented before, i really like your blog and often search it for recipes and have made a few that turned out well 🙂
The beautiful bread is perfect for soup!
That pizza dough is perfect for sandwiches too. If you slice up the foccacia, it works like a charm. Delish!
Love these sort of meals. Yummy, Diane
Another use for that great tapenade
Love it because it looks delicious and so easy to make. I am a "frequent flyer" at Trader Joe's!!!
I love all of these flavors, sounds wonderful
This focacia looks very, very tasty!!
Looks so yummy!
I love Trader Joe's,and I use their pizza crust all the time-it's really good. This looks like a great new way to use their dough!
Kim in MD
this looks so good i cant wait to try it
Wow that looks so good! I made a tomato tart last week and now I am wondering why I didn't add some olives to it!! I just found my favorite pizza dough recipe earlier this week. Your post today was great timing for me!
I have got to stop coming here so early in the morning.. once again I'll be day dreaming about your food all day while I'm at work!! I just know this tasted amazingly good!
That looks yummy! I don't mind the rain too much when it comes, but can do without the storms!
I love anything made with focaccia! 🙂 Yum! Kind of like a healthier version of pizza.
Pam all your recipes are amazing, I love focaccia, gloriaa
I may just be making this for dinner tonight. I would never have thought to use pizza dough. I am thrilled to discover this, although, I don't know why I never thought of it myself. Thank goodness you mentioned it.
I gave a Trader Joe book to my daughter-in-law. Now, I'm curious if this is the same one.
Thanks for sharing, Pam
I love Trader Joe's too!! And this looks delicious and so easy!!
Beautiful and yumm. I can imagien the flavour.
I love focaccia, and this looks amazing and so delicious..nice and easy recipe..
What a fun cookbook. I love recipes that only need a few ingredients. Makes it less overwhelming!
Oh very cool! I wanted to check out that cookbook. It sounds great.
This reminds me of the pizza I made a last week! So I know it must be delicious.
Greetings from the Amish community of Lebanon,Pa.And watch-out folks for Irene if you live in the east coast. Richard from Amish Stories.
There's no Trader Joes here, but thanks for reminding me how wonderful focaccia is!
Wow – this looks so gourmet. I'd probably put some sauce drizzled on top. I'm 23 and moving out on my own in a week or two – this is the kind of food I'd like to cook for myself…
I love focaccia … such an easy dough and the options for herbs and toppings are endless! This tomato/olive topping is classic! Great job whetting MY appetite!
I love this recipe- makes me hungry every time!! lol!
This recipe looks great. I have never made focaccia, I am going to have to try it.
That looks so delicious! 🙂
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Pam looks absolutely beautiful and exquisite, hugs.
i loveeeeeeeeeee olives. and i loveeeeeeeeeeeee olives with Italian. so so so good!
That looks gorgeous. I just want to reach in and tear a piece off.
looks so good!!!Gnam gnam!!
Have a nice weekend!
Stefy
Hi Pam, another great recipe and fantastic pics, I'm really looking forward to making some of this x
Pam, it looks like a perfect meal to me! Have a good weekend!
Great dish and great cookbook! I think I'll look for it for my son in college! 🙂
Fantastic! Love the recipe and the blog. As a cooking blogger myself, I really appreciate the quality and level of detail in your posts. They are a fun and informative read and I can hardly wait to try some of your recipes myself. Keep up the great work!
What a cool cookbook – sounds perfect for when you need a quick meal. I love their pizza dough – looks delicious!
Great homeade pizza recipe. Every monday we try and spend time as a family. I think we will try making a pizza together as family on this coming monday. Great recipe!!
Always love a no fuss recipe 🙂 Thanks for sharing and have a great week ahead!
i have got to find that cookbook, it sounds right up my alley, as does this bread!
i am not a big olive fan. However, the overall recipe sounds scrumptious. The crust is great and I adore tomatoes. What might be a replacement for olives do you think that would retain the integrity of the recipe?
This looks so crusty and chewy and good and perfect for dinner
Oh man, that looks so delicious. I love it when focaccia has olives in it. Wonderful combo 🙂
YUM! Now if only I can get Austin to like olives. hmmmm. 🙂
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You shall no more tease me with your "I was at Trader Joe's today…" posts.
Last week, it became official:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/aug/23/josh-flory-trader-joes-is-coming-to-knoxville/
🙂
I love Trader Joe's! (And every ingredient in this recipe!) Yum.
Ah I can't believe I never came across this book when I was living in California. It was my favourite place to shop! One of the only places in the area where I lived that made a decent hummus. Great simple recipe!