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Coca de llardons
Ada Parellada’s coca de llardons brings pork cracklings into a Catalan sweet pastry associated with Carnival and Sant Joan.

About Coca de llardons
Ada Parellada’s coca de llardons brings pork cracklings into a Catalan sweet pastry associated with Carnival and Sant Joan. Her rendition uses puff pastry, with the cracklings pressed into its folds.
Sugar, pine nuts and chopped almonds cover the surface. The savoury pork contrasts with the sweet topping, while the nuts add their own flavour and bite.
Baking turns the folded pastry into a thin, layered coca with a generous nut topping. It belongs to the puff-pastry style of coca de llardons also documented in Catalan bakery practice.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat, Egg, Pine nuts, Almond.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Coca de llardons
Ada Parellada’s Catalan puff-pastry coca de llardons.
- Rectangular puff pastryBase
- Pork cracklings (llardons)Base
- SugarTopping
- EggBinder
- Pine nutsTopping
- Chopped almondsTopping
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Rectangular puff pastry: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Actual48 conventional puff pastry Wheat; full prepared fat/extra-allergen formula unprovided.
- Pork cracklings (llardons): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual49 named pork cracklings, upstream production formula unprovided.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual51 list-only Egg; method placement unprovided, no invented wash step.
- Pine nuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Pine nuts source-confirmed. Actual52 pinyons confirms Pine nuts; exact species unprovided.
- Chopped almonds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed. Actual53 ametlla granillo confirms Almond.
Origins & food traditions
Spain association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Spain
- AndorraCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Catalan Cuisine
- Andorran Catalan Pyrenean CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.