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Title: Papa A La Huancaina
Yield: 1

Ingredients

      1    kilogram; (2 pounds)
           -potatoes,
      1    ; cooked with skins
      2 sl bread
      1 c  evaporated milk
      1    green or yellow hot peppers;
           - (without the
      1    ; seeds), up to 2
    1/2 c  oil
      1 c  fresh cheese or 1 cup
           -coarsely grat; ed
      1    ; fresh mozzarella or
      1    ; munster cheese
      1    salt to taste
      1    lettuce leaves
      6    black olives
      3    hard boiled eggs
      6    pieces freh cheese

Instructions

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 1/2 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.

Posted to TNT Gourmet Friday by \ Miriam Posvolsky on Dec 26, 1997.

Lou Parris in Houston, TX
Please note that my E-mail address has changed. It's louparris@xxx.xxx

Per serving: 1466 Calories (kcal); 133g Total Fat; (80% calories from fat);
21g Protein; 52g Carbohydrate; 75mg Cholesterol; 766mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 26
1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates

Recipe by: Eva Lewitus

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