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Potato cake with mushrooms and bacon

Potato cake with mushrooms and bacon

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A traditional Catalan potato cake: mashed potatoes, mushrooms, garlic, and bacon, fried in a pan until golden brown on both sides, ideally with a dairy-ba…

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Recipe from Josep Xicota, CommonsDelinker, adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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This traditional Catalan recipe combines mashed potatoes, mushrooms, garlic, and bacon. The mixture is formed into a round patty and fried in a pan until golden brown, creating a rustic and comforting dish.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time40 min
  • Resting20 min
  • Total1 hr 20 min
  • DifficultyMedium
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodfrying pan
  • Estimated cost$5.22 $1.31 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.
  • Gluten-free
  • Low lactose

Ingredients

4 people
  • $2.13
  • $2.54
  • $0.36
  • $0.16
  • $0.03

Prices from US supermarkets for 4 of 5 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Peel the potatoes and boil them in lightly salted water.
  2. Before they cool completely, mash them with a fork, adding a little of the cooking liquid if needed. The puree should remain thick.
  3. In a separate pan, heat the oil, then add the cleaned and sliced mushrooms, chopped garlic, and diced bacon in that order, stirring constantly until everything is nicely browned. Remove any excess oil, but reserve it.
  4. Add the mashed potatoes and cook the entire mixture, shaping it into a round, flat patty. Towards the end, add a few drops of the reserved oil to prevent sticking and to ensure even browning on both sides.

The bill

Potato cake with mushrooms and bacon

  • 1 kg of ground apples$2.13
  • 500 g of fresh or canned mushrooms, ideally some delicious button mushrooms$2.54
  • 4 cloves of garlic$0.36
  • oil$0.16
  • salt$0.03

Total$5.22

that's $1.31 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Equipment

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1 kg of ground apples
  • 500 g of fresh or canned mushrooms, ideally some delicious button mushrooms
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 2 slices of streaked bacon
  • oil
  • salt

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