it can sometimes be a little bit daunting to make your own bread at home but fear not I have a really fantastic recipe to make a focaccia style bread and I'm gonna be doing it in my cuisine companion in the Christine companion it mixes it needs the dough and on top of it it proves the dough at the perfect temperature so to start with I'm gonna mix the liquids in the bowl I've attached my kneading and crushing blade and then I'll add some olive oil use really good quality extra virgin olive oil for this some honey and then for some water hundred and eighty millilitres now we need to add salt to this because bread without salt doesn't taste very nice at all so a good pinch of salt now the lid can go on and I'm gonna start this on the pastry program and then just mix it so it's going to go for two minutes thirty all up but for this stage we just need to mix it for about 30 seconds okay now that that's just combined we can start adding our flour and our 320 grams in it goes now this is a mixture of instant dried yeast and I've added 20 mils of lukewarm water to that by doing that you'll see that all these little bubbles start to form which means it's active and it's ready to go into our Bowl that in with my spatula scraping down all the sides because we need all of that there now the lid can go back on and we can start the program again there's still another 2 minutes and 15 seconds but that's going to mix it and start kneading the dough after that the cuisine companion will go straight in to the proving program which will be at 30 degrees for about 40 minutes and just you watch you'll see this delightful dough double in size this dough looks so fantastic it's doubled almost tripled in size and feel it's nice and warm and then we need to take it off the blade so just carefully break it around it and test it and now with your hands just spread the dough out so it fits the size of the tin so it forms that focaccia shape I'm going to brush it with a little bit more olive oil and then cover it with some cling film and just allow it to prove again for at least one hour to one and a half hours now you can see that the dough has again doubled in size and stretched out all the way to the corners of this tray and it's now finally time to cook the dough so I'm just going to press in with my hands just some little indents just so it looks like that classic focaccia and then I'm just gonna brush some more olive oil on the top and then I always like to add just a little bit of water to the top so it steams in the oven now I've preheated my oven to 220 degrees so a nice hot oven and I'll also add a little bit of salt on top and this goes in for about 15 to 20 minutes or until it's golden brown there's nothing like fresh baked bread straight out of the oven I'm gonna cut a little wedge and listen to this perfect crunchy focaccia I'll take this little corner off because I like the crunchy bits I'm gonna have a taste mmm that is to die for and you know what this is basic bread making made so simply in the cuisine companion there are so many different options out there this one's my favorite though I love focaccia