Truffade is a rural dish traditionally associated with

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. It is a sort of thick pancake made with thinly sliced

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

es that are slowly cooked in

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fat until tender, then mixed with thin strips of

tome fraîche The Tome fraîche or Tomme fraîche is a hard pressed curd, slightly fermented and unsalted based on cow's milk, traditionally produced in the region of Aubrac and Cantal in Haute-Auvergne (Massif central). History Tome comes from the occitan word ...

(which is very different from actual tomme cheese: the recipe will fail if tomme cheese is used, since that melts in a very different way). This mixture is stirred until it sticks together in a sort of thick pastry, which is sometimes decorated with fresh parsley and may be served with a simple green salad. Sometimes the truffade is flipped over to brown the other side, or

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s are added to it.

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* French cuisine Potato dishes {{france-cuisine-stub

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