Huancayo Style Potatoes

  • Prep 10 min
  • Total 30 min
  • Ingredients 14
  • Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 1 lb yellow or purple potatoes
  • 1 lb queso fresco
  • 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated milk
  • 5 yellow peppers (aji amarillo), seeded (or paste of yellow pepper), seeded, deveined, chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled, left whole
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1/2 small yellow onion, chopped
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • 4 hard boiled eggs, halved or quartered
  • 1 tablespoon flat leaf parsley, chopped
  • 8 black olives, sliced
  • 1 or 2 lettuce leaves
  • Small package of soda crackers

Directions

  • 1
    Wash, peel and cook potatoes in water with two teaspoons of salt. When ready, drain and let them cool. Cut into slices.
  • 2
    Boil water with eggs over medium high heat. Cook eggs for 10 minutes starting timing when water boils; place eggs in cold water. Let them cool; peel when cool enough to handle.
  • 3
    Heat oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Cook the garlic, onion and chopped peppers. Brown the peppers on all sides for a minute. If time does not allow to brown, use instead yellow pepper paste. Use about 3 teaspoons, depending on level of spiciness desired.
  • 4
    In a blender, blend the garlic, onion, the peppers or yellow pepper paste, and the cheese and evaporated milk; season with salt and pepper. Add the lemon juice. Serve potatoes sliced over lettuce leaf; pour cream sauce mixture over potatoes. Garnish with boiled eggs, halved; parsley and black olives.
  • 5
    If cream sauce is too thin, you can thicken it with crackers. If it’s too thick, add a splash of milk but not too much, because it is best enjoyed when thicker.

  • The cream mix can be used on chicken, pasta and even French fries.

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