Causa Rellena | Peruvian Recipes

Causa Rellena

Causa Rellena is a layered potato dish that's made with yellow potatoes and either chicken or tuna salad. This traditional Peruvian dish is served cold and can be an appetizer or a light meal. The potatoes can also be molded or cut into circles to create a type of potato sandwich with the chicken or tuna salad in the middle. Serve on lettuce and top with black olives.

If you use dried chiles, soak them in warm water for about 5-10 minutes to make them easier to seed and mince.

Causa Rellena

Ingredients:

2 pounds of yellow potatoes
1 cup minced Aji Amarillo Chiles
1 lemon
1 teaspoon salt
1 large cooked skinless chicken breast
1 small chopped onion
1 cup light or fat free mayonnaise
Lettuce leaves
1/4 cup black olives
Parsley

Directions:

Peel, cook and mash the potatoes.
Mix the potatoes with the Chiles, salt and juice from half a lemon.
Knead until it forms a well mixed paste. If the potatoes don’t stick together well, add a trickle of oil and continue kneading until it sticks.
In a separate container, season the onion with salt and juice from half a lemon.
Then shred the chicken and mix it with half the mayonnaise.
Separate the potato and chili mixture into portions and add the chicken on top of each portion.
Place the Causa Rellena on a lettuce leaf and top with the remaining mayonnaise, olives and parsley

Serves: 4

Nutritional Information (per serving):

Calories 368
Protein 14g
Carbs 63g
Fat 8g
Sat Fat 3g
Trans Fat 0g
Fiber 11 g
Sodium 1370mg
Sugar 19g

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