The Italian focaccia al formaggio di Recco is a variation of the Italian focaccia topped with stracchino cheese and olive oil. It is very popular in some regions in the North of Italy (especially Ligurian region, in which you can find Recco city). In these same regions this dish is also proposed by Italian pizzerias (an entire focaccia can be eaten just like a pizza). In the cities in which cheese focaccia is very popular it is not uncommon that pizzerias also propose you an alternative edition to this dish: the cheese focaccia with basil pesto sauce (made with stracchino cheese and basil pesto sauce). It looks similar to pizza with basil pesto sauce, but it is not a pizza, but a focaccia (which is much more thin and soft than the pizza).
Both editions of the cheese focaccia (the simple one and the one with basil pesto sauce) cooked by pizzerias are usually very slim (even a bit slimmer than the same Italian pizza) and very elastic, and they are usually cooked in wood fired oven.
The cheese focaccia you see in the photo is prepared by a Ligurian pizzeria, and if you come to Italy I suggest you to order it from someone who cooks it in a wood fired oven: be aware anyway this particular cheese focaccia may be only available in Ligurian pizzerias, being a so particular and regional recipe, while pizza with basil pesto sauce is available also in other parts of Italy.
