Summery Lunch

Spelt Focaccia with Tomato Salsa

You gotta make this! It's a feast for your taste buds... warm bread just out of the oven with a mediterranean, refreshing tomato salsa!

A light summer lunch for a searing hot day - combine with a home made iced tea and a watermelon to finish.

Summer lunch with iced tea

Why not have dessert in the garden on such a lovely day?

Sweet and juicy watermelon

You could make up the missing protein component with either a bit of cream cheese or eat a dessert of natural yoghurt with fresh fruits.

RECIPE FOCACCIA WITH TOMATO SALSA

Ingredients:

10 g yeast (fresh)

50 ml olive oil

300 g flour (I used spelt, but you can also use wheat)

1 sprig rosemary

1 tsp coarse sea salt

salt

1 garlic clove

400 g mature tomatoes

1 small red onion or shallot

50 g green pitted olives

basil

2 tbsp olive oil

salt, pepper

Dissolve yeast in 350 ml warm water and mix in 25 ml olive oil. Stir in the flour slowly in batches. Knead a smooth, soft dough. Form a ball, dust with flour, put in a bowl and cover with a kitchen cloth. Let rise for 30 minutes. 

Dust a baking tray with flour. Knead the dough and add some salt. Put on the tray and form a flat disc (diameter approx. 25 cm), cover with a kitchen cloth. Let rise for 1 hour.

Peel and dice the garlic and infuse in the remaining olive oil for some minutes. Drain. 

Heat the oven at 200°C. Make holes in the dough with your fingers. Drizzle the garlic oil over it and distribute the rosemary and the coarse sea salt. Bake for 35 minutes until golden.

Wash and half tomatoes. Remove seeds. Dice in small cubes. Dice onion and coarsely chop the olives. 

Wash basil, cut in fine stripes and mix everything. Marinate with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Serve with focaccia.

Warning: Due to the high content of raw onions in the salsa, be sure not to kiss anybody the day you cook this meal. Best eaten on a day when you're alone and want to spoil yourself with an indulgent but yet light dish!