Autumn is “Back to school”. There are about 200 days in which to think about some snacks to give to children for the break.
The half-time snack
We suggest a delicious, nutritious and healthy 🇮🇹 Italian snack that is prepared with extra virgin olive oil: focaccia!
Focaccia with oil at school: a snack in two versions, to tell the truth …
- Sweet focaccia and savory focaccia
- Sweet focaccia with oil
A sweet focaccia with oil, simple, fragrant, very soft, with that irresistible sugary crust.
Ingredients
300 g of 00 flour:
80 g of sugar
7 g of dry brewer’s yeast (or 15 g fresh)
40 ml of extra virgin olive oil
200 ml of warm water
1 pinch of salt
sugar for the surface of the focaccia
📋 Recipe
Prepare the focaccia dough: mix the flour, sugar and yeast in a bowl. Add the warm water a little at a time, then the extra virgin olive oil and finally the salt. Knead until you get a soft and smooth mass.
Cover the bowl and let rise 1–2 hours, until the dough doubles in size. This is the first rise.
Grease a baking sheet with extra virgin olive oil. Roll out the dough with your hands, without crushing it too much, leaving it about 1.5–2 cm high.
Let it rest 30–40 minutes in the pan. We are at the second rising.
Brush the surface with extra virgin olive oil, then sprinkle generously with granulated sugar. You can use brown sugar, if you prefer: the crust will be more caramelized.
Bake at 180°C for 20–25 minutes. The surface should be slightly crispy and the inside fluffy.
Delicious variants
- Focaccia with raisins: 50 g of raisins soaked in water and squeezed.
- Focaccia with chocolate chips
Savoury Focaccia
To alternate the snack during the school year, every now and then prepare savory focaccia.
In this case, the salt to be added to the dough will be about 10 grams and just a hint of sugar.
What ingredients can you add to make the savory focaccia more appetizing?
– Olives, of course,
– Walnuts, or peanuts, or salted pistachios
– Cheese cubes.
Artisanal snack – Artisanal oil
This is an artisanal snack, made with Agrimarconi artisanal oil.
We are sure that any variant will be very tasty!
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Sono Matteo Marconi, la mia è una famiglia di agricoltori. Sono cresciuto in azienda agricola e ho messo radici sempre più profonde in questo mondo fatto di cura e rispetto per la natura fin dall’adolescenza, iniziando a seguire le orme di mio padre con i primi lavori in campagna.
La mia giornata? Sveglia già all’alba a sfalciare l’erba tra i mie ulivi con un attento controllo delle piante che tratto con Spintor Fly, un insetticida biologico.
La fase più faticosa dell’anno ma anche la più attesa è la raccolta delle olive, in autunno, per ottenere l’olio extra vergine d’oliva di qualità superiore che produco e imbottiglio. In base al periodo dell’anno, mi occupo anche del fieno per i miei animali.
Sono giovane, ma grandemente coinvolto nelle attività dell’azienda di famiglia e il nome dell’olio che produco con tanta passione (e orgoglio) ne è chiara dimostrazione: Azienda Agricola Marconi Matteo. Nel logo c’è solo la lettera M, l’iniziale del mio nome e cognome, non per manie di protagonismo, ma perché ci metto davvero tutto Me stesso.
