Coca Mallorquina
(Mallorcan pizza/pastry)
  • Plain flour
  • Dried yeast (1 tsp) dissolved in a 3 quarters full whisky tumbler  of tepid water
  • Jar of Cypressa Red Peppers or 4 fresh

Origen:   Mallorca

  • 3 fl oz olive oil
  • salt
If you have fresh red peppers start by placing them whole in a baking tin in a HOT oven for half an hour or so, until they are blackened all over.  Remove and place in plastic bags for a few mins to cool before peeling off the skins and discarding the stalks and pips.

Pour the yeast water and the olive oil into a mixing bowl.  Stir in enough flour to make a soft, slightly sticky dough - use oiled hands to finish the mixing.  Upturn the bowl on the surface to cover the dough and leave for 20-30 mins to rise.  Meanwhile turn on the oven and slice up thinly the red peppers (if they are from a jar, make sure to rinse well and pat dry first). 

Oil a baking tin.  Now take the dough (oily hands) and ease and tease to cover the bottom of the tin - this will take a little while and some patience as the dough keeps springing back.  It needs to be quite a thin layer so remove any excess (this will freeze).  Sprinkle the top with the peppers, salt and a drizzle more of oil and bake for round about 30 mins at 200 C or until the underside is golden when lifted up.  Cut into squares and serve with drinks.

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