{"id":1640,"slug":"huancayo-potatoes-in-cream-sauce-papas-a-la-huancaina","title":"Huancayo Potatoes in Cream Sauce (Papas a la Huancaína)","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["10 medium potatoes (new or red a good choice)","1 pound cheese (Romano, Mexican or feta work well)","4 aji amarillo (Peruvian yellow chili peppers), seeded and deveined","1 cup evaporated milk","½ cup vegetable oil","2 cloves garlic","8 saltine crackers","1 tablespoon prepared mustard","Salt","Pepper","Lettuce","3 hard boiled eggs","Black olives"],"ingredients_norm":["potato","cheese","aji amarillo","evaporated milk","vegetable oil","garlic","saltine cracker","prepared mustard","salt","pepper","lettuce","hard boiled egg","black olive"],"steps":["Peel and boil potatoes as you normally would. Drain water, and allow them to cool.","In a blender, purée the cheese, peppers, milk, oil, garlic, crackers, mustard, salt and pepper. The sauce should be fairly thick; add more crackers if not, or add milk if too thick","Lay a bed of lettuce in a serving dish and place the potatoes on top. Cover with the sauce. Cut the hard boiled eggs in half and place on top of the potatoes. Add black olives if desired."],"categories":["Potato recipes","Recipes using potato","Recipes using cheese","Vegetarian recipes","Peruvian recipes","Side dish recipes","Boiled recipes","Recipes using hard-cooked egg","Recipes using aji amarillo","Recipes using evaporated milk","Recipes using garlic","Recipes using vegetable oil","Recipes using lettuce","Recipes using prepared mustard"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":"6 or more","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Huancayo_Potatoes_in_Cream_Sauce_(Papas_a_la_Huancaína)","source_ref":"4613391","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Huancayo_Potatoes_in_Cream_Sauce_(Papas_a_la_Huancaína)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"fc42fe747e8db43080cd83e3f373d96e2b73740f173efdaa218e1f07d08fac41","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:05Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:05Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/huancayo-potatoes-in-cream-sauce-papas-a-la-huancaina"}