Causa Rellena Con Pollo
Peruvian dish with potatoes, chicken meat, mayonnaise.

- prep 18 min
- cook 42 min
- total 60 min
- serves 6
- advanced
- Peru
Ingredients
- 10 medium potatoes
- 1 pound chicken meat
- 100 g mayonnaise
- 25 g butter
- 2 cloves garlic
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- to taste lettuce
- 3 hard eggs
- to taste black olives
Steps
- Cook and peel the potatoes.
- Allow to cool, then mash.
- In a bowl combine the chicken, mayonnaise, onion, salt, and pepper.
- Line a deep dish with plastic wrap, or place a molding cylinder on a plate.
- Add the mashed potatoes to form a bed about 1 cm tall at the bottom.
- Add a second layer of 1 cm of the chicken mixture evenly over the potato.
- Top the chicken mixture with a final layer of potato, forming a sandwich of chicken inside two layers of potato.
- Unmold or remove the cylinder.
- Garnish with lettuce and mayonnaise.
- Cut the hard boiled eggs in discs and place on top.
- Add black olives, if desired.
- This dish can be served slightly cold.
Adapted from “Causa rellena con pollo”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.