Causa Rellena

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs yellow potatoes, peeled and boiled
• 1 cup chili pepper, minced (yellow aji)
• 1 lemon
• vegetable oil (if needed)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 skinless chicken breasts, cooked (10-12 ounces)
• 1 red onion, chopped
• 1 cup reduced-calorie mayonnaise
• lettuce leaf
• olive
• parsley

Recipe

• 1 mash the potatoes. allow potatoes to cool until they are comfortable to handle.
• 2 mix the potatoes with the peppers, salt and juice from half a lemon. knead until it forms a smooth paste. if the potatoes don’t stick together well, add a trickle of vegetable oil and continue kneading until it sticks.
• 3 in a separate container, season the onion with salt and juice from half a lemon.
• 4 in another container, shred the chicken and mix it with half the mayonnaise.
• 5 separate the potato and chili mixture into portions. for a simple presentation, form into a flat mound on a salad plate. for a more elaborate causa, use a round metal spring mold (or a soup can with both ends cut out).
• 6 cover with a layer of the onion mixture.
• 7 cover with a layer of the the chicken.
• 8 (for simple presentation, use one layer of each component. for elaborate presentation, use multiple thinner layers, ending with potato on the top.).
• 9 chill before serving. garnish with the rest of the mayonnaise, lettuce, olives or parsley.