Marcoude des Legumes

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    Two

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

  • About

A Marcoude is a North African Sephardic dish, somewhere between an omelette and a potato cake. This delightfully simple, lightly spiced vegetable recipe is also very popular with Jewish communities in South-Eastern Europe, the Gulf and India, and variations exist using chickpeas, spinach or even sautéed peppers and tomatoes.

Ingredients

  • 30 ml/2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 onion, finely chopped

Method

  1. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok or large pan, and fry the next ten ingredients until they are well blended but the potato and tomato are still firm. Season to taste with salt and ground black pepper.

  2. Increase the heat and pour in the