Meanings
- uncountableA French dish popular in Nice; a kind of chickpea pancake seasoned and eaten hot.
Finally, arriving in Nice, the dish undergoes its ultimate transformation, becoming the peppery socca. Here it is poured much thinner, resulting in beautifully crusty edges and a roasted surface.
2026 June 26, Federico De Blasi, “Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd”, in The Guardian, →ISSN3 more examples
Socca, a soft chickpea pancake, is as popular in Nice as pizza is in New York City. In fact, socca is so popular in Nice that you're as likely to be knocked down by a socca delivery man on his specially built […]
1999, Daniel Boulud, Dorie Greenspan, Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 80But the best approach to a meal at Nizza is snacking: a plate of salumi; an order or two of excellent socca, the savory pancake made from chickpea flour that’s a regional staple, flavored at Nizza with sage and onions; […] Nizza in Clinton serves socca, a pancake made from chickpea flour.
2008 March 26, The New York Times, “New Places: Nizza and Sookk”, in New York TimesHis brief menu, which changes completely every three weeks, often involves modern twists on traditional Niçois dishes such as socca (a chickpea-flour pancake) wrapped around stir-fried spring vegetables.
2011, Fodor's Provence & the French Riviera: with Paris, Fodor's Travel, →ISBNSynonyms: farinata
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA French dish popular in Nice; a kind of chickpea pancake seasoned and eaten hot.
Origin
- Frenchsocca
- Frenchsocca
- Englishsocca
Borrowed from French socca.
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socca. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/socca
“socca.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/socca. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “socca,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/socca.
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