Description
My son came home from peru describing this dish and we finally found it on a website with traditional peruvian recipes. It's such a delicious meal! You can substitute the tuna with salmon or any other flavorful large flaked fish. It's a little work to make but well worth the effort and it's quite economical too!
Ingredients
- Yellow Potatoes
- Chili Powder
- Oil
- Salt & Pepper
- Black Olives
- Queso Fresco
- Onion
- Lemons
- Hard-boiled Eggs
- Tuna
- Mayonnaise
- Cheese
- Avocado
Instructions
- Causa:
- Squeeze the lemons and marinate the onion in the lemon juice with salt, pepper and chili powder
- Boil the potatoes with their skins on
- Peel once cooked and mash them with a fork
- Add the lemon juice and onion
- Add the oil gradually in order to keep the mixture smooth
- To serve causa without stuffing put the mixture into a mold and chill for 1 hours
- To serve, unmold and garnish with olives, quartered hard boiled eggs and cubes of cheese
- Divide the causa mixture into three parts
- Cover the bottom of a mold with one part
- Mix the tuna with mayonnaise and onion
- Then add a layer of half the tuna mixture
- Add a layer of causa followed by a layer of the remaining tuna
- Add the sliced avocado
- Cover with the third layer of causa and garnish with hard boiled eggs, cheese cubes and olives
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hours