Peruvian Tuna Fish Potato Loaf so Called "causa"
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 kg yellow potato
- 1⁄4 cup oil, for frying
- 2 key limes, juice of
- salt
- pepper
- 1 tablespoon ground fresh yellow chili
- 2 lbs fresh tuna fish or (6 ounce) cans of tunafish packed in oil
- 1⁄2 red onion, diced
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 sliced avocados
- 2 cups mayonnaise
- parsley
- 8 Spanish olives
- 2 hardboiled egg
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Optional
- red pepper, thinly sliced
directions
- Boil potatoes with salt. Peel and mash. Combine with salt, white ground pepper, key lime juice, aji and oil.
- Mix tuna fish with mayonnaise and diced onion.
- Spread potato mixture on a thin rectangular sheet of plastic. Spread the filling: top with tomatoes, sliced avocado and roll using the plastic to help form a round loaf.
- Refrigerate for one hour, remove plastic and place on a serving dish. Garnish with parsley, chopped olives and hard boiled eggs, sliced avocado (with drops of key lime juice to prevent discoloring) and if desired, mayonnaise and red pepper slices.
- Note: If canned tuna fish is used, season with key lime juice and chopped onion.
- If fresh tuna fish is used, bake first with salt and ground white pepper.
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you can try those different fillings for this dish:
- Avocado, mayonnaise, diced tomato and boiled diced eggs.
- Avocado, mayonnaise, beets and boiled diced eggs.
- Shrimps, mayonnaise, ketchup, drops of lime juice and ground yelow chili.
- Crabmeat and mayonnaise.
- Octopus in olive sauce.
- Olives and mayonnaise.
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