Black Olive Rosemary Fougasse

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This is astir a flatbread: particularly crusty, fragrant with caller rosemary and laced with coarse oversea brackish and a smattering of kalamata olives. It's large to service with a elemental omelet oregon enactment of cheeses. If you're not a instrumentality of rosemary and/or olives, those ingredients tin beryllium omitted.

You'll request an extra-large zip-top bag, large capable to incorporate a baking expanse and 2 loaves of bread. (Alternatively, a ample expanse of integrative wrapper tin beryllium used.) We recovered the flours called for successful this look astatine MOM's stores. Spring h2o is specified due to the fact that it is not chlorinated (and truthful volition not interfere with yeast development).

Store this breadstuff wrapped successful a cleanable crockery towel for the archetypal day, which volition assistance support the crust crisp; aft that, successful a zip-top bag.

The sponge starter needs to beryllium astatine country somesthesia for 8 to 16 hours. The dough needs to emergence a archetypal clip for 45 to 90 minutes and a 2nd clip for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. The unsliced loaves tin beryllium frozen for up to 2 months.

From Montreal baker and cookbook writer Marcy Goldman.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 20 Makes 2 loaves

For the sponge starter and dough

1 cupful water, preferably outpouring h2o (see headnote)
1/2 spoon instant yeast
1 1/4 cups unbleached breadstuff flour oregon (preferably) integrated achromatic breadstuff flour
2 tablespoons integrated whole-wheat flour
2 tablespoons integrated rye flour

For the dough

1 1/2 cups water, preferably outpouring water
2 teaspoons instant yeast
2 1/4 teaspoons coarse oversea salt, positive much for garnish
1 tablespoonful honey
2 tablespoons acheronian rye flour, positive much for dusting
2 tablespoons olive oil, positive much for drizzling
3 cups to 4 cups unbleached achromatic breadstuff flour, positive much for the enactment surface
1 tablespoonful minced rosemary (from 3 stems), positive leaves for garnish
2 cups pitted Kalamata olives, each chopped successful half

Nutritional Facts

Per slice

Calories
140
Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
24 g
Sodium
370 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
2 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.

From Montreal baker and cookbook writer Marcy Goldman.

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published February 5, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026