This foraged and festive looking bread is perfectly suited for the season and a beautiful addition to your holiday dinners. This recipe features rosehips, the small berry like, edible buds that form in the fall from Alberta’s official flower, the Wild Rose. The rosehips can be can be dried and used to make teas and of course added to baking. In this case a foraged focaccia!
This alcohol free “beer bread” version contains kombucha, a fermented tea beverage with some seriously awesome health benefits (probiotic, detoxifying and energy boosting to name a few). It quickly gained popularity over the past few years, even though it’s been around for 2000 years. With many local Albertan kombucha makers to choose from, support local and pick up one today to add to this delectable recipe. For this recipe we used a rosehip & hibiscus flavoured kombucha.
We opted to make this recipe in a ceramic pie plate and embellished it with some more foraged finds just a short walk away! Spruce needles and wild sage add a fun and interesting flavour twist! This bread was gone in 5 minutes!
Foraged Kombucha Focaccia {Rosehip, Wild Sage & Spruce Needle}
Ingredients
- 1 package Lannie Rae Gourmet Beer Bread Mix (575 grams)
- 355 ml Rose Hip / Hibiscus Kombucha (355 ml) Any Kombucha will do – whichever flavour you choose will flavour the bread!
- 1/4 cup Dried Rosehip crushed / crumbled
- 1 tbsp Wild Sage reserve some for garnish
- 1/2 cup Melted Butter Coconut oil would work too
- 1 tbsp Spruce tips and needles reserve some for garnish
Instructions
- Place Lannie Rae Gourmet Beer Bread Mix in a large mixing bowl. Stir using a wooden spoon and create a well in the middle.
- Pour the kombucha into the well and add rosehip, sage and some spruce needles. Mix all the ingredients together. The dough will be sticky. Do your best to bring the dough together. Do not use a mixer or beaters. You do not want to overmix this and engage too much gluten!
- Place dough in a prepared (lightly greased) loaf pan or pie plate (we used a ceramic pie plate) You may also form the dough on a pansheet into any shape you'd like for a focaccia.
- Garnish / decorate the top of the loaf with any reserved rose hips, sage and spruce tips. Pour the melted butter over the dough and bake in the oven on the middle rack at 375F for approximately 50 minutes to an hour. We are using convention bake oven setting and 50 minutes was our magic number!
- Serve warm with butter. Store in a bag like regular bread. Slices well and toasts well. Enjoy!
