{"id":3798,"date":"2010-11-02T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2011-08-08T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T04:51:01","slug":"coca-mallorquina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/coca-mallorquina\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca Mallorquina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Shari Bonnin is a talented jewelry and clothing designer from Orange, CA and our November Mom of the Month. I knew Shari from Twitter (@sbonnin<\/a>) and much to our surprise we met in real life when I recognized her at a parents orientation at UC Santa Cruz this summer. As it turns out, both our daughters’ top choice for college was UCSC and, based on their interest in the arts, they had both selected the same residence hall! Shari shares this recipe for Coca Mallorquina, a splendid rustic pizza from the Majorca region of Spain. She wrote this post for her website, BonninDesigns<\/a>, in 2008 and it perfectly expresses my mission of not only promoting cooking at home, but honoring our parents and preserving cultural traditions through the cooking that they so lovingly shared with us through the years. \u00a0Please take a moment to read Shari’s words and drool over the best pizza in the world \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Three years ago my husband\u2019s mother passed away. Prior to that we would go to their home many weekends and eat Cuban food prepared by both my mother-in-law and my father-in-law as they shared the kitchen. Since her passing, we really haven\u2019t eaten much Cuban food and my father-in-law seemed not interested in cooking much, even for himself.<\/p>\n

For several years, my husband has wanted his father to come to our home and teach us how to make one of the family\u2019s favorite dishes, Coca Mallorcin. It\u2019s a Spanish pizza but my father in law (Nestor) says that you can\u2019t get his version anywhere, even if you spent $100. He says that in Spain, they don\u2019t put enough stuff on the pizza and his version is the best. After eating his version last night, I would have to agree hands down that it is the greatest pizza ever eaten.<\/p>\n

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I believe one reason Nestor hasn\u2019t made it sooner was because of the time the dough takes to make as well as just his loss of interest in cooking. I had a solution to get him over here and not worry about the dough this time. Thanks to Trader Joe\u2019s and their refrigerated pizza dough, our first problem was solved. Next time we can make the dough from scratch. The next issue I hoped would resolve once he got started.<\/p>\n

Our day started at 3 pm with slowly chopping and preparing the ingredients for the dough and at the same time listening to stories of Nestor\u2019s younger years in Cuba as well him sharing his tricks and tips on how to make these cocas different and even venturing into the next time he comes over other dishes he will share with us. He was truly in his element and I hadn\u2019t seen joy like that from him in a long time.<\/p>\n

So, on to the recipe \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Coco Mallorquina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enough for 3 pizzas\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2 bunches of swiss chard<\/span><\/p>\n

3 prepared pizza doughs<\/span><\/p>\n

Spanish chorizo sliced (or a hot dried sausage such as Boar\u2019s Head Apprezzese)<\/span><\/p>\n

1 lb uncooked, peeled shrimp<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc cup capers<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bd cup sliced green olives<\/span><\/p>\n

1 onion sliced<\/span><\/p>\n

3 tomatoes sliced<\/span><\/p>\n

5 cloves garlic minced<\/span><\/p>\n

Olive oil\"\"<\/a>
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Salt
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Flour for rolling dough<\/span><\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.<\/p>\n

1. roll out dough to fit onto cookie sheet or pizza pan<\/p>\n

2. brush the dough lightly with olive oil<\/p>\n

3. salt the dough (we added quite a bit)<\/p>\n

4. start adding ingredients starting with \u00be of the swiss chard and end with the remaining swiss chard<\/p>\n

5. drizzle olive oil on the pizza<\/p>\n

6. bake until dough is cooked on edges. Swiss chard should be a bit crispy and shrimp should be pink (about 12-15 min)<\/p>\n

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And of course don’t forget a good bottle of Spanish Rioja. We drank Marques de Riscal Reserva 2003. Chin-chin.<\/p>\n

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