The recipe comes from the Canary Islands. Wrinkled potatoes with 2 sauces: one red, one green.
Ingredients:
500 gms small potatoes, unpeeled
5 tbsps sea salt
Water to cover
For the mojito verde:
2 medium green peppers
1-2 serrano chiles (or something similar)
Handful of coriander leaf (you could use parsley)
tsp cumin seeds
tsp salt
3-4 cloves garlic, peeled
1 slice of bread, without crusts
2 tbsps sherry vinegar (white wine vinegar will do)
Olive oil
For the mojito rojo:
2 medium red peppers
1-2 hot red chiles (Thai bird peppers, chile de arbol)
1 tsp Spanish paprika
3-4 cloves garlic , peeled
tsp cumin seeds
tsp salt
1 slice of bread, without crusts
2 tbsps red wine vinegar
Olive oil
Method:
Ingredients:
500 gms small potatoes, unpeeled
5 tbsps sea salt
Water to cover
For the mojito verde:
2 medium green peppers
1-2 serrano chiles (or something similar)
Handful of coriander leaf (you could use parsley)
tsp cumin seeds
tsp salt
3-4 cloves garlic, peeled
1 slice of bread, without crusts
2 tbsps sherry vinegar (white wine vinegar will do)
Olive oil
For the mojito rojo:
2 medium red peppers
1-2 hot red chiles (Thai bird peppers, chile de arbol)
1 tsp Spanish paprika
3-4 cloves garlic , peeled
tsp cumin seeds
tsp salt
1 slice of bread, without crusts
2 tbsps red wine vinegar
Olive oil
Method:
- Put the potatoes in a pan and add the salt. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Cook for about 20 minutes.
- Pour off the water, leave the potatoes in the pan, and put the lid on.
- Clean the peppers, removing seeds, stalk and veins. Do the same with the chiles.
- Cut up the slices of bread and soak in the vinegar
- Put the peppers, chiles and all the other ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Clean the peppers, removing seeds, stalk and veins. Dice the chiles.
- Cut up the slices of bread and soak in the vinegar
- Put the peppers, chiles and all the other ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Put the potatoes ( which should now look wrinkled ) on a plate and serve with the two mojitos