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Preparing the Potato for Papas a la Huancaina

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Hi, I am Victor Albisu. We are making Papa a la Huancaina. So, to get started, we need, first a bowl of potato. Peel it and present it on a Bibb lettuce leaf. So, let's get started with that. First you get water on the stove to boil. Always season your water. It brings out the flavors. Today, we are using an ideal whole potato, but you can easily use a Yukon Gold potato. It will cook for about 8 minutes. At that point, remove it, let it cool, dont burn yourself, and this is what we have there, is a cooled potato that has been cooked skin on. We will remove the skin gently, so as to not remove too much potato. It's going to happen. It's inevitable. I like to do with my hands, rather than, lot of people like to do it with a towel, but I think that a towel can injure or damage the texture of the potato a little bit.

So, there you have an intact peeled potato. We are going to take our plate, our Bibb lettuce leaf. You can also use iceberg, or red leaf, or whatever is your favorite lettuce, something like that. I like to present this large and chunky. Next step, well be sauting the aj Amarillos, and making the sauce for the dish.

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Victor Albisu may have been born in northern Virginia, but he seems “born” with Latin food in his blood. Victor’s mother is Peruvian, his father is Cuban; one grandfather was a baker; and two aunts owned their own restaurants in Miami – Latin food was central to his upbringing. In fact, he doesn’t have a single childhood memory that doesn’t involve some delectable Latin cooking or More »