Spanish Coca De Sant Joan Recipe In 5 Easy Steps
BAKER'S COCA BREAD RECIPE
June 24th is Saint John’s day, and in Catalonia people celebrate it with a big fireworks festival the evening before. Locals get together to make bonfires, see the fireworks, toast with cava and… eat coca bread! It’s easy to buy it in any local bakery or cake shop, but you can also make it at home. Today we are telling you how.
This the traditional Catalan coca cake recipe:
1
Prepare the sourdough starter
Make it the day before, diluting the 2 tablespoons of leavening in 3.5 milk tablespoons, then adding 5 tablespoons of flour little by little until the dough is consistent.
2
Prepare the dough
Mix all ingredients (see below for the list) in a bowl and mix them until it becomes an elastic dough. Then, add the sourdough starter and mix again until it’s homogeneous and elastic.
3
Let it sit
Put your dough over a wooden counter coated with flour, cover with a clean linen and let it sit for 2 hours or until it doubles volume.
4
Prepare the coca cake
Using your hands or a rolling pin, stretch it to an oval shape, an move onto an oven tray coated in butter. Let it sit for 2 hours more, then paint with egg yolk and add the toppings (candy fruit, pine nuts or custard).
5
Bake
Bake in the oven at 200º C (390º F) for 15 minutes. Let it cool before serving: it must be room temperature.
And here is the list of ingredients:
6
INGREDIENTS FOR THE COCA BREAD DOUGH:
- 1.5 cups of flour
- 0.5 cups of sugar
- 1 cup of milk
- 2 eggs
- Vanilla
- Lemon or orange zest
- 1 tablespoon of corn flour
- 5 tablespoons of butter
- Pinch of salt
TO DECORATE YOUR COCA DE SANT JOAN:
- Candy fruit, sliced (orange, cherries, pinapple…)
- Some pine nuts
- 1 egg yolk
Have you ever tried Coca de Sant Joan? Did you like it?
Marta
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