Pyrenean Potato and Kale Cake

Trinxat de la Cerdanya

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Anya von Bremzen

Published 2005

  • About

I love this quintessential winter dish of Cerdanya, a section of the Catalan Pyrenees where Barcelonans escape to breathe mountain air, pick wild mushrooms, or just lose themselves rambling on the back roads among wild goats and ram-shackle Romanesque churches. There, trinxat is prepared with potatoes and col de invierno, a local variety of winter cabbage. With its curly dark leaves, col de invierno is actually closer to our kale. Josep Maria Boix, a renowned local chef