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Trinxat

Name: Trinxat
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Andorra
Ingredients: 1/2 Cabbage; 3 Potato; 100g Bacon; 2 cloves Garlic; 3 tbsp Olive oil; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cabbage and potatoes mashed and fried into a cake with bacon — a mountain dish of Andorra and the Pyrenees.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Trinxat means 'chopped,' a dish of Andorra and the Pyrenees of northern Catalonia. Winter cabbage and potatoes are boiled, mashed, and fried into a cake with garlic and bacon fat. It's said to be best made with winter cabbage sweetened by frost.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Andorran mountain hut, a golden cake of cabbage and potato fried in an iron pan is served topped with crisp bacon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cabbage 1/2
Potato 3
Bacon 100g
Garlic 2 cloves
Olive oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the cabbage and potatoes together until soft and drain thoroughly.
Mash roughly with a fork and season with salt and pepper.
Fry the bacon crisp in a frying pan and remove.
Add olive oil and garlic to the same pan, spread the mash flat, and fry both sides into a cake.
Turn out onto a plate and top with the bacon.

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