Focaccia Bread Decorated With Vegetables

Teri culletto aka the vineyard baker creates art with focaccia bread as her canvas using fresh herbs and vegetables she has crafted a series of vincent van gogh inspired loaves she calls van dough that features floral imagery as both a way to add surface decoration and flavors to her baking.

Focaccia bread decorated with vegetables. Onions red onions to look like flowers green onions to look like stems shallots to like like flowers. These edible works of art inspired by the creations of vineyard baker on instagram are fun for the whole family to make. Culletto began to think of focaccia as a vehicle for art in 2018 after being asked to teach an.

Nuts and seeds like pine nuts and pumpkin seeds add texture and flavor as the center of flowers or create soil. Make your focaccia bread. Spread the vegetables out over top the dough leaving some space between the vegetables and pushing them gently into the dough.

If you have a recipe for focaccia bread that you don t want to part with adding herbs and veggies to your dough should still work. Nuts pepitas or pine nuts for petals or flower centers. Transfer to baking rack to cool.

We ll be using the same method with a few additional steps to turn it into a picturesque work of art. Brush a thin layer of olive oil over the top and sprinkle with salt. Here are some more ideas of what to put on your bread.

Bake the focaccia for 20 minutes until the bread is golden brown on both sides. Pre heat the oven 450 f. Decorate dough by gently pressing down cherry tomatoes asparagus red peppers bell peppers olives dill sage parsley basil pine nuts and pepitas.

Cover with the towel again and let the dough rise for another 20 minutes. Drizzle with more olive oil and sprinkle with salt then let rest for 10 minutes more. Just be sure to add some oil on top of your artwork to avoid burning.