Causa Limeña
Chilled Peruvian potato layers with lime, chili, avocado and tuna.
Photo: Murphy Stay / Unsplash
⏱ 45 min📶 Medium👫 Serves 2☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Yellow or floury potatoes, 500 g
- Lime, 1
- Yellow chili paste, 1 tbsp
- Canned tuna, 160 g drained
- Mayonnaise, 2 tbsp
- Avocado, 1
- Egg, 1
- Olive oil, 1 tbsp
Steps
- Boil potatoes until tender, mash smooth and cool slightly. Mix with lime juice, chili paste, olive oil and salt.
- Mix tuna with mayonnaise. Boil and slice the egg; slice avocado.
- Press half the potato mixture into two small molds or a loaf tin, add tuna and avocado, then top with remaining potato.
- Chill 15 minutes, unmold and garnish with egg.
Cook it together: One of you: make and season the potato mash. The other: prepare filling and assemble the layers.
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