Papa a la Huancaína (Huancayo-Style Potatoes)

  4.7 – 9 reviews  • Peruvian

This dish for sticky chicken comes out spicy, sweet, and delectable. It tastes well with rice and vegetables as an entrée or as an appetizer.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 45 mins
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  1. 12 Yukon Gold potatoes
  2. 1 tablespoon olive oil, or to taste
  3. 1 onion, sliced
  4. 6 chile peppers, halved lengthwise and seeded
  5. 1 pound cream cheese, softened
  6. 1 pound queso fresco (Mexican fresh cheese), crumbled
  7. ¼ cup vegetable oil
  8. 2 teaspoons salt
  9. 1 clove garlic
  10. ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  11. ⅓ cup evaporated milk
  12. 8 leaves lettuce
  13. 4 large hard-boiled eggs, halved lengthwise
  14. 8 black olives, pitted and halved

Instructions

  1. Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and set aside to cool slightly.
  2. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in hot oil until tender, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
  3. Bring a small saucepan of water to a boil. Cook chile peppers in boiling water until soft, about 5 minutes. Run chiles under cold water until cool enough to handle; remove and discard skins.
  4. Add onion, chile peppers, cream cheese, queso fresco, vegetable oil, salt, garlic, and black pepper to a blender; blend until smooth. Stream evaporated milk into blended mixture with the blender on until sauce is creamy.
  5. Arrange 1 lettuce leaf onto each of 8 plates. Halve potatoes and arrange 3 halves onto each lettuce leaf. Pour sauce over potatoes. Top each serving with an egg half and 2 olive halves.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 586 kcal
Carbohydrate 46 g
Cholesterol 190 mg
Dietary Fiber 4 g
Protein 20 g
Saturated Fat 18 g
Sodium 927 mg
Sugars 5 g
Fat 37 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Eric Fischer
In the directions it just said cheese so i forgot to put the cream cheese lol, it still tastes really good tho.
Brent Obrien
THe aji amarillo was not as spicy as I would have liked. Also, the garlic gave a bit of a bitter after-taste. The amount of aji-amarillo sauce was too great for the amount of potatoes. Would halve the amount of sauce for the amount of potatoes in the recipe.
Andres Walker
I live in Ohio and Peruvian food is scarce but I had a craving for this and besides the Aji peppers everything else was easy to find (I substituted with jalapeños) What an easy recipe to follow! I would say I’ve had better but that’s because I’ve had A friends Peruvian mom make it and you just can’t beat mami’s cooking! But if you’re not savvy with authentic Peruvian food this will hit the spot my husband loved it and this was his first time trying Peruvian Cuisine MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS MARCO
Mariah Lopez
Delish!
William Elliott
I made this for extra credit for my Peru project in social studies and it was very good. My dad accidentally added an entire thing of garlic instead of a clove though which gave it a kick. everyone seemed to enjoy it and the sauce was absolutely incredible. When we boiled the jalapenos we had spicy steam throughout our house for a few hours though, which hurt. Overall taste 10/10 and cooking was an 8/10
Andrew Davis
very tasty and easy to make. traditionally made using aji amarillo. you can find a jar of it in most hispanic markets. 2 serrano peppers make a great substitute.
Denise Young
Made this for a culture night at church and it was a hit. Hard to find aji peppers so I put in some poblanos.
Rhonda Garrison
Loved it! Just left out olives. Thanks for a great recipe!
David Collins
Loved it! Just left out olives. Thanks for a great recipe!

 

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