Coca Dam Crostini
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TypeSide dish
Serves4 people
DateAugust 29, 2026
Neatly stacked crostini with a bold tapenade crack: Coca River corruption served up on your plate.
Crispy crostini form the dam wall of the hydroelectric plant, with a neat ricotta façade. A hidden streak of spicy tapenade runs diagonally as the infamous crack: scandal beneath the surface, neat on the outside.
Ingredients
- 1 baguette
- 200 g ricotta
- 80 g black olive tapenade
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Slice the baguette diagonally into pieces about 1.5 cm thick.
- Rub the slices with a cut clove of garlic and brush with olive oil.
- Bake the crostini for 8 minutes until golden and crisp.
- Let cool, then spread a generous layer of ricotta on each crostini.
- Arrange the crostini tightly next to each other on a long platter, like a dam wall.
- With a spoon, draw a diagonal streak of tapenade across the ricotta, mimicking a crack.
- Garnish with chopped parsley, salt, and pepper.
Serving notes
- Serve on a long platter for the hydro dam effect.
- Make sure the tapenade crack runs diagonally across the crostini.
- Present with small forks for that ‘neat outside, sting inside’ vibe.