Recipe - Papa A La Huancaina

1 kg (2 pounds) potatoes; cooked
with skins
2 sl Bread
1 cup Evaporated milk
1 Green or yellow hot peppers;
(without the seeds), up to
2
One half cup Oil
1 cup Fresh cheese or 1 cup
coarsely grated fresh
mozzarella or munster
cheese
Salt to taste
Lettuce leaves
6 Black olives
3 Hard boiled eggs
6 Pieces freh cheese

Peel the potaotes and cool. To prepare the sauce, soak the bread in the
milk. Liquify the hot peppers with the oil in the blender and add the milk,
bread and cheese. Mix until smooth. If the cheese is salty, no more salt is
necesarry. Arrange the cooked and peeled potatoes on the lettuce leaves and
cover with the cheese sauce. Decorate with olives,hard boiled eggs and
pieces of fresh cheese.

There is a Bolivian version of Papas a la Huancaina: Ingredients 3 ground
yellow chilies 2 Tablespoons oil 1 cup milk One half kilo (1 pound) peanuts,
roasted and ground 1 teaspoon huacatay (similar to wild marigold. No known
substitute) 6 large cooked potatoes, peeled and cut in half 6 lettude
leaves hard cooked eggs, dark olives, tomatoe slices and cheese slices.

Fry the chilies in the oil. Add the milk, peanuts and huacatay. Simmer
until the sauce thickens, about 15 minutes. To serve, place two potatoe
halves on each lettuce leaf. Cover generously with the sauce. Garnish with
the eggs, olives tomatoes and cheese.

Recipe by: Eva Lewitus

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Leon & Miriam
Posvolsky miriamp@pobox.com on Dec 26, 1997