Quick vegetable and goat cheese coca
At Vitrinor, World Pizza Day seems like the perfect excuse to celebrate it our way.
Because yes, pizza has its moment… but in Mallorca, Levante, or Catalonia, we’ve been playing in another league for some time: the league of coca. A popular, flexible, and very local recipe that adapts to what you have at home and the real time of day-to-day life.
Coca is, at its core, a pizza without complexes. It doesn’t demand strict rules or impossible ingredients. It accepts vegetables, cheeses, well-thought-out leftovers, and, above all, improvisation.
For this version, we’ve chosen pre-made roasted vegetables from the supermarket, the classic escalivada of pepper, eggplant, and onion, because we want to demonstrate something very simple: that you can cook something delicious, homemade, and freshly made in less time than it takes to have an order delivered to your home.
What if one day you have the time and desire to roast the vegetables yourself? Great! But today we’re talking from a practical standpoint: oven on, good ingredients, and no complications.
The PizzaPan is perfect for making this recipe in a moment, with even heat distribution and without dirtying the oven. Let’s get started!
Servings: 1 to 4 people
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: easier than ordering it
Utensils used: Vitrinor PizzaPan
You will need:
- 1 sheet of shortcrust pastry for coca or pizza (approx. 250 g)
- Tomato sauce, whatever works best for you
- 1 jar of roasted vegetables, escalivada style (300–350 g, well drained)
- 150 g of mild goat cheese
- Black pepper to taste
- Oregano or dried herbs
How is it done?
Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Place the pastry base directly on the PizzaPan, without paper and without complications.
Spread the tomato sauce (from a jar, homemade, from your mother’s Tupperware, whatever you have) on the dough. It has to be a thin layer or it will be soggy.
Open the jar of roasted vegetables and drain them calmly; excess liquid can ruin the texture of the dough. Spread the vegetables evenly over the dough, without piling them up, allowing each ingredient to have its space.
Crumble the goat cheese and distribute it unevenly. It is not necessary to cover the entire surface: the beauty lies in finding small creamy bursts that contrast with the roasted vegetables.
Place the Pizza Pan in the oven and bake for about 25 minutes, until the dough is golden and the cheese begins to melt and brown slightly. Perfect time to clean up the kitchen, set the table, or simply sit down for a moment.
Remove the coca from the oven, add the oregano now, and let it rest for a couple of minutes. Just enough time for it to settle and the base to remain crispy. Cut it on a board and enjoy.
To enjoy it even more
This coca allows for a thousand variations: some black olives, a handful of nuts, a touch of honey on the goat cheese, or even some anchovies added at the end. Change one ingredient and you’ll have a different recipe without starting from scratch.
You see that to celebrate World Pizza Day we don’t need to order it. In fact, we don’t even need it to be a pizza. It is enough for us to turn on the oven, open a good jar, trust a simple recipe, and have a PizzaPan on hand to do the rest.
