Papa La Huancaina

This food is as fun to say as it is to eat! It is a traditional Peruvian food. It can be served as an appitizer to share or as the main dish. Word to the wise, this is spicy! If you like it a little more mild go easy on the pepper sauce. Do it to taste.

Ingredients

• 6 potatoes


• 1 bar Cream Cheese (traditionally you use a 1/2 round of queso fresco sold in any Latino store instead of cream cheese)


• 20 Saltine crackers


• 2 tbs Peruvian Yellow hot pepper sauce (Aji amarillo molido)


• 2 cups evaporated milk


• 1/8 cup oil


• salt to taste


• Hard boiled eggs


• Large leaf lettuce

Directions

1. Blend together milk, yellow hot pepper, crackers and cream cheese until well blended


2. Next while blender is running add oil.


3. Separately boil potatoes then peel and slice into rounds.


4. Boil eggs


5. To serve lay the boiled potatoes on a bed of lettuce leaves. Then pout creamy sauce over potatoes. Add sliced eggs on top and serve.