This incredibly delicious delicacy is made with noodles and sweet toppings!
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 50 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 8 russet potatoes, peeled
- ½ cup vegetable oil, or as needed
- 2 tablespoons minced aji amarillo
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 2 (5 ounce) cans tuna, drained
- 1 small red onion, diced small
- ½ cup mayonnaise, divided
- 2 avocados, cut into thin strips
- 3 hard-boiled eggs, thinly sliced
Instructions
- 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.
- Mash potatoes with a ricer or hand mixer until smooth. Gradually stir in oil until potatoes come together; add aji amarillo, salt, and pepper. Cool potato mixture in the refrigerator, about 20 minutes.
- Stir tuna, onion, and 1/4 cup mayonnaise together in a bowl.
- Line a casserole dish with plastic wrap. Spread 1/2 the potato mixture on the bottom of the dish. Spread 2 tablespoons mayonnaise over potatoes, spread tuna mixture over mayonnaise, and place avocado slices in a single layer on top of tuna mixture. Spread remaining 1/2 of potato mixture over avocados, and top with remaining 2 tablespoons mayonnaise. Place sliced eggs over top. Cover casserole dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Invert casserole dish onto a serving dish or baking sheet to remove potato casserole from dish. Remove plastic wrap and cut casserole into squares.
- With this dish, you can make the layers as thin or as thick as you like.
- You can substitute tuna with chicken or other seafood.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 533 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 43 g |
| Cholesterol | 94 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 8 g |
| Protein | 16 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 134 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 34 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I used a pre made aji Amarillo sauce, even doubling what it called for, but not nearly as flavorful as it should have been. I have a Colombian friend …will ask her for advice. Maybe the sauce I bought was not a good one! No reflection on this recipe !
Yummy, in spite of a couple of substitutions. I made.
This is an amazing dish! I made it exactly as stated even including tuna which I usually can’t stand. It was absolutely delicious and I will definitely make this again.
I prefer using chicken instead of tuna, but otherwise it’s soooo good- kind of like a picnic in a casserole. We make this for a large group when a friend’s mother makes homemade Aji. Delicious!
Instead of just oil and aji amarillo (which I cant find) in the potatoes, I substituted vadallia onion vinegarette, purchased at Sam’s Club. I used chicken salad instead of tuna salad. And since I didn’t have any ripe avocados, I used guacamole sauce I had in the freezer. By layering in a spring form pan, lining the sides with plastic wrap, I was able to slide it onto a dish for a great presentation. Yum
Instead of just oil and aji amarillo (which I cant find) in the potatoes, I substituted vadallia onion vinegarette, purchased at Sam’s Club. I used chicken salad instead of tuna salad. And since I didn’t have any ripe avocados, I used guacamole sauce I had in the freezer. By layering in a spring form pan, lining the sides with plastic wrap, I was able to slide it onto a dish for a great presentation. Yum
It was good. We used it as a variation on potato salad. It was easy to make and everyone liked it. By putting the eggs and olives on after it is inverted out of the dish, it looked pretty too. We followed the recipe as written except that we substituted poblano pepper for aji amarillo because that is what we had. Poblanos tasted good but I might try to find aji amarillo for next time. We plan to make it again.
So glad you liked it! When using instant potatoes, make them without the milk or butter called for. Add enough hot water to moisten then add oil till spreadable. You want the two layers to be thick.. also don not invert dish with mayo on top, do this before. The mayonnaise and eggs are supposed to be on top.
I did try the recipe and did like it however I did not use potatoes, I didn’t want to take forever cooking them then mashing them, I used instant potatoes which worked equally well, you may need to use less milk to get a firmer batch of mashed potatoes.