Coca de recapte (la Paradeta menu) is a typical Catalan pastry, to be found in the areas of Gerona, Barcelona, Tarragona and Lérida, and consists of a dough mixed with escalivada (oven-baked peppers and eggplants) to which any ingredient can be added. The traditional ones are sardines, herrings or butifarra, even though today you might find them with tuna, onion, olives, or tomatoes. Due to its similarity to pizza, it is supposed that the origins of this plate date back to the Roman domination of the Iberic peninsula (el National offers Pastry with acorn-fed Iberian shoulder ham and rocket, Oil pastry with cheese, cooked ham and spinach, and Catalan crunchy bread with roasted vegetables and goat cheese, each for 8,5 euros).
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