Coca (pastry)

Coca
Sweet and savoury cocas
TypePastry
Place of originCatalan-speaking lands
Main ingredientsSweet dough: eggs, sugar
Savoury dough: yeast, salt
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"Coca de Sant Joan", sweet coca with candied fruits and pine nuts, typical of Catalan summer solstice celebration
"Coca de crema", coca with Catalan cream, an example of sweet coca
"Coca de mullador", a valencian variety of coca with samfaina, a dish similar to ratatouille, an example of the savoury coca

The coca (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkokə]), coc or fogassa, is a pastry typically made and consumed in Catalonia,[1][2] the Aragonese Strip,[1][3] most of Valencia,[1] the Balearic Islands,[1] Andorra[4][1] and in French Catalonia.[1]

All around the Mediterranean there are similar typical dishes.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Eliana Thibaut i Comalada, Les Coques Catalanes, Proa, Barcelona 1995.
  2. ^ Coca de recapte
  3. ^ Coca d'albercoc
  4. ^ Coca massegada Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Source: Eliana Thibaut i Comalada, Les Coques Catalanes, Proa, Barcelona 1995.