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Socca

Name: Socca
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Monaco
Ingredients: 150g Chickpea flour; 300ml Water; 4 tbsp Olive oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; plenty Black Pepper

Snack

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Chickpea flour crêpe baked thin and crisp — a street snack of Monaco and Nice.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Socca is a snack of chickpea flour, water, and olive oil batter poured thin on a big copper pan and baked in a wood oven, a specialty of Monaco's La Condamine market and the stalls of Nice. It's cut fresh from the oven, showered with black pepper, and eaten hot with your fingers.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Monaco's La Condamine market, fresh thin socca is cut with a spatula from a big round copper pan and handed over wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chickpea flour 150g
Water 300ml
Olive oil 4 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper plenty

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the chickpea flour, water, 2 tbsp olive oil, and salt into a smooth batter and rest 1 hour.
Preheat the oven with the baking tray in it to 250°C.
Brush the hot tray with the remaining oil and pour in the batter 2–3mm thick.
Bake 8–10 minutes until charred in spots.
Cut into rough pieces with a spatula and grind over plenty of pepper.

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