Oregano-Basil Focaccia Bread with Health One Meal Replacement

Oh how I love cooking with fresh herbs. Each year I grow, harvest and dry herbs for the following year. Today was my first harvest! Throughout the summer I use my fresh herbs. The extras - which there are always A LOT - are dried. This morning the fragrance of herbs wafted through my home as I dried today's harvest.

Many recipes do much better with dried versus fresh herbs. So today, in honor of dried herbs, our recipe is Oregano-Basil Focaccia Bread with Health One Meal Replacement. This is a very dense bread; but, oh so yummy. It is wonderful fresh out of the oven or toasted with a salad.  Enjoy!

2 servings
Calories per serving
Meal Replacement - 160 calories
Additives - 40 calories

Ingredients:

• 2 Potato Soup Meal Replacements
• 1 teaspoon dried Oregano
• 1 teaspoon dried Basil
• 2 tablespoons Jiffy Pizza Mix
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1 tablespoon Parmesan
• 4 tablespoons Hot Water
• 1 tablespoon Flour
• Olive Oil Cooking Spray
• Sprinkle of Oregano and Basil

Instructions:

• Mix dry ingredients (including Parmesan).
• Add water a little at a time, stirring in between to make certain that the dough does not get too wet (you may need a little less or a little more water – just add it slowly).  The dough needs to be moist, but firm.
• Cover dough and let set for 5 minutes – this allows the yeast in the mix to activate.
• Sprinkle flour onto a cutting board or other smooth surface.  
• Knead the dough a few times in the flour.  The gluten in the flour helps the dough to become more elastic.

• Place dough on baking sheet w/parchment paper that has been sprayed with Olive Oil Cooking Spray.
• Flatten the dough so that the top is rounded - kind of like an outer slice of a sphere.
• Make shallow indentations over the top of the dough.
• Generously spray with Olive Oil Cooking Spray.
• Sprinkle with Oregano and Basil. 
• Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

Enjoy!