Potatoes in Spicy Cheese Sauce - Papa a La Huancaina
photo by Annacia
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- salsa, a la Huancaina, Spicy Cheese Sauce
- 4 tablespoons oil, vegetable
- 1⁄2 cup onion, chopped
- 3 -4 chili peppers (yellow aji amarillo frozen is fine or 1/2 cup jarred aji amarillo paste)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon turmeric (optional, if you don't want it spicy add tumeric instead)
- 2 garlic cloves, mashed
- 2 cups cheese, white farmer's cheese (queso freso, may sub with feta)
- 4 crackers, saltine (or for slightly sweet flavor add animal crackers instead)
- 3⁄4 cup milk, evaporated
- 1 pinch salt (to taste)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper (to taste)
- 8 potatoes (yellow or white)
- lettuce leaf (for plating)
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 8 large black olives, halved
directions
- For the sauce - Remove seeds from yellow chile peppers and chop into 1 inch pieces.
- Sauté the onion, garlic, and chile peppers (or paste) in the oil until onion is softened, about 3-5 minutes. If using the tumeric option, add it now.
- Once onion is softened remove from heat and let cool.
- Place the onion-chile mixture in a food processor or blender, add the evaporated milk and blend.
- Next add the cheese and crackers and blend until smooth.
- The sauce should be fairly thick. If necessary thicken you can thicken the sauce with more saltines or thin the sauce with more .
- Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve at room temperature or chilled.
- For the potatoe dish - Heat a large pot of salted water to boiling and add the potatoes.
- Boil the potatoes until tender, drain and let cool.
- Slice the potatoes and place on top of the lettuce leaves.
- Then pour the huancaína sauce over the potatoes and garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg and black olive halves.
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Kato, I'm soooo sorry that I forgot about the eggs and olives. The photo would have looked a lot better so I'm typing this with a bag over my head. However, The sauce is the shining star of the recipe and it's delicious, it was even yummy on the lonely potatoes lol. You can make it as hot or not as you like, it very versatile so your going to want to make it a lot because you'll keep thinking of things that you want to put it on (DH had a lot of it on his monster double pattie chicken burger and smiled a lot). It's also very simple and quick to make, heck the food pro does all the work :D. All in all, it's a keeper. Thanks for thing one hon.
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