I would believe it's vegan simply because there isn't anything in there that makes me think meat or cheese or eggs. It's really good. This is the socca:
I'd never heard of socca before. The book says that this is Italian street food made healthy and fancy. I'm the daughter of an Italian. Never heard of it. It is simply chickpea flour and water and oil and salt and herbs. It is fabulously delicious on it's own, esp to someone who doesn't eat bread anymore. Calvin says that it tastes like chicken. Oh-kay. He's a little odd. I plan on taking the socca recipe and seeing if I can add stuff to it--like grated veggies--to mimic some old Midwestern dishes that I miss.The next step was a white bean, roasted garlic, parsley, olive oil puree:
Pretty basic; not too exciting. What was exciting was the roasted garlic: my first successful attempt. My local gourmet cooking expert called me yesterday to see if I did indeed die (because I didn't visit her to celebrate MLK day on Monday). While I had her on the phone I pestered her with my cooking questions and was then able to perfectly roast garlic. (Take the head; chop of the tips; pour in some olive oil; wrap in foil; roast in 350 degrees for 1.5 hours; let cool until you can handle it; squeeze it all out.)-
The final dish with a side salad of peas and grated daikon (because I just can't get enough peas right now):
There was square of the socca, a layer of bean puree, marinara sauce, and then sauteed onions and spinich. I had to substitute onions for leeks...and the recipe calls for something hearty like kale or collard, not spinich. This was perfect though, so I'll stick with my spinich.
There was square of the socca, a layer of bean puree, marinara sauce, and then sauteed onions and spinich. I had to substitute onions for leeks...and the recipe calls for something hearty like kale or collard, not spinich. This was perfect though, so I'll stick with my spinich.-
I am terribly happy to have found this thing called socca. I can't have bread...I can't have cornbread...I can't have polenta. This makes a good substitute for all those. At least to me. And it's cheap and easy.
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I have a lot of this left over, so if you are local and don't mind a house full of cooties, come on over.
5 comments:
Yay--I've got that book! I am sure I would love socca (which I course I haven't heard of before, either!) ;)
Looks delicious!
This looks wonderful, I may have to try it! I miss being vegan. 6 months, 6 months...!
I'm glad you found socca! It looks good! I have an unrelated question....do you have a good recipe using yams? I remember seeing one somewhere, and I thought it was your blog, but I don't see anything yammy in the sidebar. I have visited so many food blogs and websites recently that I'm afraid I'm mixing them up. (Yours is still my favorite though!) Yams were on sale and I bought some and now I need to use them. :-)
That socca looks great! I've never heard of that either.
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