Salted potatoes

Papas saladas

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food and Cooking of Colombia and Venezuela

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2015

  • About

For this simple dish choose uniformly-sized, waxy-fleshed red or yellow potatoes that are small enough to cook whole. Papas saladas are delicious with grilled meats or fish, and are so good that you can also eat them at room temperature.

Ingredients

  • 450 g/1 lb (about 10) small new potatoes
  • 40 ml/

Method

  1. Wash the potatoes well. Do not peel or cut them, and keep the skin intact.

  2. Place the potatoes in a pan with water to barely cover them. Add the salt.