Causa Rellena

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Causa Rellena

Causa rellena is an iconic recipe from Peru that combines lemony and spiced mashed potatoes with tuna or chicken or seafood and avocado.

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Ingredients

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For the mashed potatoes

  • 3 lb potato yellow flesh
  • 2 tablespoons aji amarillo paste (or alternatively, 1 large orange or yellow hot pepper)
  • 3 lime squeezed
  • 1 clove garlic , crushed
  • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
  • salt
  • black pepper

For the filling

  • 10 oz. tuna canned
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise (or more to taste)
  • 1 scallion , finely chopped
  • 10 cilantro chopped, leaves
  • 2 avocado ripe), peeled and cut into thin strips
  • 3 tablespoons peas cooked
  • 1 carrot diced, cooked

For the decoration

  • 2 egg hard-boiled
  • black olive a few
  • 1 red hot pepper small

Equipment

  • food processor

Instructions

  1. If you do not have aji amarillo paste, you must first seed the fresh pepper, blanch it for 2 minutes in boiling water and drain before pureeing it in the blender.
  2. Peel the potatoes and boil them in salted water for 20 minutes. They should be cooked but still remain firm.
  3. Mash the potatoes with a potato ricer, then mash them by hand for about 10 minutes while gradually incorporating the lime juice, oil, aji pepper paste, garlic and mayonnaise.
  4. Add salt and pepper. Let cool.
  5. Mash the tuna with a fork and mix by incorporating olive oil, scallion, mayonnaise and chopped cilantro leaves.
  6. Use a cookie cutter circle and add the first layer of mashed potatoes. Place a layer of tuna filling, then another layer of mashed potatoes, then the thinly sliced avocados or mixing of peas and carrots, and end with a last layer of the potato mixture. (Or vice versa, starting first by the avocado or the peas / carrots and then tuna)
  7. Decorate the top with boiled eggs and black olives or little red pepper.
  8. Serve cold.
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