Stuffed Focaccia Bread With Sausage And Onions Recipe 465

STUFFED FOCACCIA BREAD STICKS

Steps:

• 1. For bread machine, place wet ingredients in bread pan, add yeast and dissolve, place dry ingredients in and use DOUGH ONLY cycle.
• 2. Take sausage out of casing and brown and break up as it is cooking. If it is too chunky after cooking, place in food processor and pulse till small crumbles. Dab excess oil off with a paper towel. Add just enough pasta sauce to make it moist, but NOT runny or soupy.
• 3. Grate Bruschetta Jack cheese. You could also use mozzarella or provolone or any flavorful Italian melting cheese.
• 4. Once dough has finish cycle, rested and risen, take out and roll into a log. Cut into 8 even amounts.
• 5. On a lightly floured surface roll dough out to a very thin rectangle shape, (approx. 8-10" by 6" wide, dough will stretch to tuck over and under) place cheese and sausage in center leaving room on each end and along sides. Stretch dough over stuffing and tuck in and roll into log. Seal both ends and tuck under. Place seam side down on parchment paper lined baking sheet, make sure to spray parchment paper with spray oil.
• 6. Repeat, and place each bread stick slightly apart, they will rise slightly while cooking.
• 7. Brush each with garlic infused olive oil, sprinkle on grated parmesan and red pepper flakes if desired. Lightly sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
• 8. Bake 400° for 23 minutes till light brown. Allow to rest for a few minutes before serving.

SAUSAGE, BELL PEPPER, AND ONION FOCACCIA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• In a large skillet sauté the bell peppers, the onions, the garlic paste, and the fennel seeds in the oil over moderately high heat, stirring, until the vegetables are browned lightly, cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring, for 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are softened, and season the mixture with salt and pepper. While the vegetables are cooking, in a well-seasoned ridged grill pan or large skillet grill the sausage lengths over moderately high heat, turning them once, for 6 to 10 minutes, or until they are cooked through, and halve them lengthwise.
• Halve the focaccia squares horizontally, leaving one edge uncut to form a hinge, and fill them with the pepper mixture and the sausage.