Causa Limeña (salmon)

Name: Causa Limeña (salmon)
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 avocado; 100 grams smoked salmon; 1/4 onion, chopped; 50 grams cilantro, chopped; 20 ml olive oil; 1/2 lemon; 8 potatoes; 50 ml vegetable oil; 2 lemons; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 2 "aji amarillo" or "chile largo" peppers; 1 pinch salt; 1 pinch black pepper; 1 egg boiled; 2 olives; 30 ml mayonnaise; 30 ml mustard

Jack Fermon @el_pinche_jack

Mountain View, CA

I love this Peruvian dish, I enjoy it when I have the opportunity to visit Lima. But in Mexico some ingredients are difficult to find, like the "Aji Amarillo." So I used Mexican "Chile Largo" peppers instead. This dish is served cold.

This one is filled with smoked salmon, but you can use tuna, veggies, chicken salad, etc.

Jack Fermon @el_pinche_jack

Mountain View, CA

This one is filled with smoked salmon, but you can use tuna, veggies, chicken salad, etc.

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Ingredients

4 servings

Fillings
1avocado
100 gramssmoked salmon
1/4onion, chopped
50 gramscilantro, chopped
20 mlolive oil
1/2lemon
Causa paste
8potatoes
50 mlvegetable oil
2lemons
2garlic cloves, minced
2"aji amarillo" or "chile largo" peppers
1 pinchsalt
1 pinchblack pepper
Decoration
1egg boiled
2olives
30 mlmayonnaise
30 mlmustard

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Steps

1

Boil the potatoes until cooked (it takes about 1 hr.)
2

Peel the potatoes and mash them very well (we want no lumps.)
3

Add to the potato paste the oil, the garlic, the chopped peppers and the juice of the two lemons. Mix all together to incorporate all the ingredients to the potato. You should have now a soft and manageable paste.
4

Wait until the mix is totally cold. Flatten the paste with a rolling pin until you have a 1 cm thin layer.
5

Cut some shapes with a cookie mold/cutter. You will need three cuts/pieces per serving.
6

Cut the avocado in very thin slices. This will be your first filling.
7

Cut the smoked salmon in thin pieces/squares (1x1 cm.) Add some olive oil, the chopped onion and the cilantro. This will be your second filling.
8

To assemble the causa, put the first potato paste piece in a dish. Add some slices of avocado. Add a second piece of potato paste. Add some of the salmon filling. Add the third part of the potato paste.
9

To decorate, mix the mustard and the mayonnaise and put them in a condiment bottle with a thin nozzle. Draw some scratches of this liquid in the causa and the plate. Finally add 1/4 of the boiled egg, a leave of cilantro and a half of an olive in the top of the causa.