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Secret Homemade Pizza from Catalonia

The Catalan Coca - A Mediterranean delight

Learn a Catalan homemade pizza very few people ever heard about beyond the borders of the Catalan-speaking Countries.


Homemade pizza.

Homemade pizza ready for baking

Coca de recapte – Catalan coca

Ingredients for this homemade pizza

Serves 2 as main dish
Serves 4 as accompaniment


For the dough
  • 1 heaped cup flour
  • 1 level teaspoon dry yeast
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
For the homemade pizza toppings
  • 2 large red bell peppers
  • 2 medium-sized eggplants
  • 2 medium size onions
  • 2 small ripe tomatoes
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 herrings or raw sausage

Catalan homemade pizza dough. Pizza dough topped with onion. Homemade pizza dough with pizza toppings.

Homemade pizza preparation instructions

Cooking time: 30 minutes.
Preparation time: 90 minutes.
Rising time: 3 hours.

  1. Place the flour in a large bowl. Add the dry yeast and the salt, and mix well.

  2. In a large cup, mix the 1/2 cup of olive oil and the 1/2 cup of lukewarm water.

  3. Make a small well in the middle of the flour and add the olive oil and water mixture.

  4. Knead the flour mixture by hand for 10 minutes until the dough is elastic and smooth, and until the olive oil gives it a nice golden color.

  5. Place the dough in the same bowl, cover with a towel, and allow it to rise for 3 hours in a warm place with no draught.

  6. Preheat the oven to 200ºC, and roast the whole vegetables.

  7. When the vegetables are well roasted, peel them.

  8. Cut the peppers, and eggplants into long strips, and the onion into rings or strips. Finely chop the tomatoes.

  9. When the dough has risen for 3 hours, stretch it with a rolling pin. Give it an oval form like shown in the picture.

  10. Oil a cookie sheet, adn sprinkle some flour on it. Place the oval shaped flour on it.

  11. First spread the onion over the whole homemade pizza dough. Second, distribute the tomato. Third, distribute the pepper strips like shown in the photo. Fourth, place the aggplant strips in between the pepper strips. Finally, place the herrings or the sausage.

  12. Drizzle olive oil liberally over the whole homemade pizza toppings. Use a cruet or olive oil dispenser if you have one.

  13. Bake the delicious homemade pizza for 30 minutes. Here you have it, a delicious Catalan coca.




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