Potatoes with Cheese Sauce – Ocopa Arequipena

Freshly cooked, peeled potatoes are eaten hot or possibly cooled in Peru. Typical for this version from the southern highlands around the city of Arequipa is the herb Huacataj. The cilantro relative is only available dried in our country.

If necessary, you can use fresh parsley or chervil, “but”, says Peruvian Bertha Duarte Vargas, “then it is no longer our typical sauce”.

Rinse the potatoes and soften them without peeling. Drain, steam, cut in half lengthwise and cool.

In the meantime, remove the seeds from the chili peppers, pour hot water over the peppers and simmer for half an hour.

Peel and finely dice the onion and garlic. Sauté in 1 tsp oil until translucent.

Mash onion and garlic with drained chilies, crackers, crumbled cheese and peanut kernels. Fold in oil gradually until a thick sauce (something like mayo) is formed. Stir in crushed huacataj.

Arrange potatoes on lettuce leaves. Pour the sauce over them and garnish with halved eggs and drained olives.

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