Foodies on Menorca
Foto: David Arguimbau
500 g flour, 150 g water, 175 g olive oil, a piece of baker's yeast of about 25 g, salt, garlic, parsley and paprika, a dozen red peppers in the oven (depending on the size of the peppers), peeled and cut into strips.
To make the coca dough, we will put the flour in a bowl and in the middle we will make a hole where we will put the glass of warm water in which we will have dissolved the yeast. Then we will add the olive oil and we will knead it until we obtain a dough that is neither too hard nor too soft. We will spread it on a baking tin that will be greased with oil.
We will let it soften between an hour and an hour and a half covered with a clean kitchen towel.
Salt the dough for the cake and in a bowl or glass mix a little oil with red pepper and, with a brush, spread the surface of the cake well. Then put the strips of roasted red pepper on top until they fill the top of the cake.
Some people also put a small pinch of sugar on the peppers to kill their bitterness.
Finally, bake it for about 25 or 30 minutes at a temperature of about 180 degrees or until we see that it is ready, because each oven bakes differently.