Causa with Tuna and Avocado

Name: Causa with Tuna and Avocado
Cuisine: Peru
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons olive oil; 1 green chilli, seeded and finely chopped; 1 large ripe avocado, sliced; 1 red pepper, thinly sliced; Juice of 2 lemons; 1 hard-boiled egg, chopped; 2 lb (900 g) floury potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed; 1 large can tuna; Salad leaves to garnish (optional); 6 olives, sliced; 5 fl oz (150 ml) mayonnaise; Sea salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

The International Potato Centre in Peru provided me with several recipes using causa: potatoes mashed with oil, chilli peppers and lemon juice. This is one of them – it makes good picnic food.

Ingredients

2 lb (900 g) floury potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed
6 tablespoons olive oil

Americas
Peru
Fish course
Starter
Pescatarian
August

Method

In 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, liquidise the chilli and stir with the remaining olive oil into the potato with the lemon juice and salt to taste.

Mix together the tuna and the mayonnaise. Divide the causa mixture into three portions. Spread one of the portions in a shallow dish. C