Last night I experimented with a new cuisine -- Balearic. (And no, I didn't listen to techno music while I prepared the meal.) What I ended up preparing was Coca, which is a kind of Balearic pizza made without cheese.
Mine was topped with spinach, fresh tomato, pine nuts, and plenty of olive oil. (I also couldn't stop myself from throwing on some fresh slivers of garlic.) This dish was prepared by:
1. Mixing 1 tsp sugar with 3 tsp yeast and a little warm water, allowing the yeast to bubble up.
2. Mixing in 2 1/4 cups of flour, 1 cup warm water, 2 tsp olive oil, and 2 tsp white wine to make a dough. The dough was allowed to rise once, double, then shaped into a flat pan shape. The dough was thin pricked with a fork all over and allowed to rise again inside the pan.
3. Finally the dough was topped with olive oil, blanched spinach, fresh tomato, pine nuts, salt, pepper and baked for 20-25 minutes at 390F.
Comments
Would've been cooler if you did listen to techno ;)
Posted by: Jeff | December 12, 2006 07:21 AM
Is the shine on the pizza crust purely from the olive oil?No cheese?Looks delicious!I'll definitely try this myself:)
Posted by: KT | December 13, 2006 01:58 AM
KT: Yes, only olive oil, no cheese! Apparently coca is famous for being a no-cheese version of pizza. Great for people who don't like to eat a lot of dairy.
Jeff: I promise I'll rock out to some EBM next time. ;-)
Posted by: Evil Jonny | December 13, 2006 06:24 AM