Purple Cabbage Garden Focaccia

Add a healthy boost and positively purple vibes to your focaccia! Enriched with the pure goodness of purple cabbage (also known as red cabbage) juice, this beautiful flower garden focaccia is like no other.

A good source of potassium, folate and vitamin K, purple (red) cabbage has 10 times more vitamin A than green cabbage! Armed with a host of benefits for heart, brain and vision health, the cabbage adds a flavoursome aroma to the focaccia while its enzymes will give your dough an extra fluffy texture.

What you’ll need

• 1 + 1/4 cup purple cabbage juice + 1 tbsp lemon juice + 1 tbsp sugar (room temperature)
• 3 cups bread flour
• 2 teaspoons yeast
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

For decoration: assorted vegetables and herbs including bell peppers, small onions, leek, tomatoes, olives, sage and basil

How to make it

1. In a small bowl, combine yeast, sugar and 20ml cabbage juice. Set aside for 10 minutes.
2. After 10 minutes, in a medium-large bowl, combine flour, salt, and yeast mixture. Stir well. Add the rest of the cabbage juice mixture. Mix until all of the flour is well incorporated (there should be no small pockets of flour.)
3. Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place (preferably approximately 38 degree celsius) with a wet tea towel for about 40 minutes or until dough has doubled in size.
4. Lightly oil a 9-inch square cake pan with olive oil. Roll out dough to fit into the pan. After 15 minutes, stretch dough out to fit the pan if it shrinks.
5. Cover pan with plastic wrap/wet tea towel and allow the dough to rest till approximately doubled in size (about 30mins). The dough should cover the pan.
6. Drizzle another tablespoon of olive oil over the dough. Use your fingers to press down into the dough to create deep dimples (approx 2 fingers apart).
7. Unleash the artist in you and decorate the top with fresh herbs, vegetable and flaky sea salt.
8. Brush herb and vegetables toppings thoroughly with olive oil to prevent them from being burnt.

Bake:

1. Preheat oven to 375 deg F/190 deg C with a rack positioned in the centre of the oven. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until the tops are golden. Remove pan from the oven. Remove bread from the pan and transfer to a cooling rack.
2. Serve warm or allow to cool completely.

Freeze:

1. To freeze, allow bread to cool completely, then transfer to a ziplock bag and freeze. Thaw and enjoy at room temperature or warm for 10 minutes in a 350 deg F/180 deg C oven.