Causa Peruvian potato salad recipe post-vegan or vegetarian

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We make this often and garnish various ways. It's very good. Not anything like

American potato salad even though it contains many of the same ingredients.

 

" Causa " Peruvian Potato Salad

 

8 large potatoes, peeled and cut into large pieces

3 Tbspns. lemon juice

1/3 cup olive oil or mayo

salt & pepper to taste

1-3 tsps. hot chile peppers finely minced

 

Sauce

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2 onions thinly sliced

1 fresh hot pepper cut into strips

2 Tblspns. olive oil

1/4 cup of chopped cilantro

juice of 1/2 lemon

salt & pepper

 

 

Boil potatoes and mash with oil or mayo. Add lemon juice, salt, pepper and

chiles. Shape into small balls and place on lettuce leaf lined platter. Cover

with sauce.

 

To make sauce mix sauce ingredients and lay over top of potato balls.

You can also top with crumbled cheese, black olives, red bell pepper, sliced

hard boiled eggs, etc.

 

 

 

" In the present position of the planets, it's impossible to say;

Just when I'll find my course again, with the boulders in my way.

I should be rolling down the skyway on my cosmic wheels;

Instead of stumbling down this highway on my boots of steel "

Source: Cosmic Wheels by Donovan