In the kitchen, the presentation works as much as the flavors. The visual sharpens the taste buds. But why not push this taste for aesthetics by adding a nice artistic touch? An American baker named Teri Culletto invented flowering focaccia, drawing inspiration from Van Gogh’s paintings in her first "Van Doughs". We love it!
Ah Italian specialties! In addition to being a delight for the palate and often relatively simple to prepare, they can be a real spectacle for the eyes. This time it's the focaccia that Internet users have decided to pimp to make it look like a flowering garden. However, this invention is not recent, but a buzz on Twitter has revived this idea which makes our mouths water. With more than 364,000 likes (and many responses), we can say that artistic focaccia seduces as much by its gluttony as by its creativity.
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This brilliant idea comes from baker Teri Culletto, who runs the @vineyardbaker Instagram account and who regularly impresses her 23,000 subscribers with her specialties as good as they are beautiful. Here is a little appetizer!
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Cooking tutorial: how to make a successful flowered focaccia (or gardenscape focaccia) ?
To prepare your "Van Dough" focaccia, you must first follow a classic focaccia recipe as suggested below. Once the dough is made and before it is too puffy, brush it with olive oil, then place the various foods previously cut to form a landscape (which you can imagine upstream to save time).
Teri Culletto advises to soak the ingredients in lemon water beforehand so that they retain their color during cooking. Also, don't hesitate to lightly press down on your items to keep them stuck in the dough.
Then put your gardenscape focacciaaccording to recipe instructions, occasionally checking that nothing is burning. And for those in a hurry, you can also use a ready-made dough such as bread dough bought from the baker (yes it is quite possible) or, failing that, a pizza dough, which you just have to decorate. .
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What are the best garnishes to make your flowering focaccia?
Your lesson in culinary design:
- Red onions: thinly slice them to give them the shape of a flower.
- Mini peppers: Slice crosswise (so that they stay round) to make them look like small flowers, or slice them into strips to create large sunflowers.
- Chives: Create beautiful flower stems.
- Green onions: Also suitable for shaping flower stems or even seaweed.
- Parsley: perfect for the leaves.
- Basil: also ideal for leaves or algae.
- Cherry tomatoes: cut them in half lengthwise and dry them with a paper towel. Great for imitating the pistil of a flower!
- Tomatoes: with a sharp knife, shape beautiful roses.
- Olives: pebbles or flower pistils.
- Capers: seeds.
- Rosemary: small plants.
- Thyme: small plants.
- Grated Parmesan: sand.
