Potato and Egg Cake

Marcoude

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    as a side dish
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Saffron Shores: Jewish Cooking of the Southern Mediterranean

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2002

  • About

Marcoude is a North African Sephardic version of the Spanish potato tortilla. This dish is called cuajada in La table juive, based on an Arabic term for qas’ah, a Spanish cooking vessel such as a cazuela. This Algerian recipe comes from Leone Jaffin. The recipe calls for russets, as opposed to the new potatoes that Simy Danan uses in La nouvelle cuisine judeo-marocaine (see variation). If you use only h