Coca (cake)
Coca is a sheet cake very popular in Catalonia , Valencia , Aragón and the Balearic Islands , which originally comes from the Balearic Islands and is therefore often referred to as Mallorcan pizza . A coca always consists of a basic dough that can be prepared with or without yeast . The dough is then topped with vegetables , fish or meat . Just as one cannot speak of the pizza, countless coca variations are prepared. There are savory cocas, cocas with a thick dough base, cocas with wafer-thin dough and also sweet cocas. Often a coca is simply topped with the leftovers from the day before. In contrast to pizza, however, you never find cheese on a coca .
Some of the most famous and popular cocas are:
- Coca amb trempó , sheet cake with peppers , tomatoes and onions
- Coca d'espinacs , sheet cake with spinach
- Coca amb pebres , sheet cake with red peppers and garlic
- Coca amb pinxes , sheet cake with sardines
- Coca amb sobrassada , sheet cake with sobrassada
and sweet cocas such as:
- Coca de Sant Joan , in German St. John's cake, is traditionally prepared on St. John's Eve and is a yeast dough cake topped with candied fruit.
- Coca de IIardons , a greave cake that is baked at Carnival time.
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- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (2008). La cocina de los mediterraneos (Cataluña, Valencia y Baleares). Barcelona: Ediciones B. ISBN 84-9872-109-1 .