How to Make Tasty Causa Limeña (Peruvian dish)

Causa Limeña (Peruvian dish).

You can cook Causa Limeña (Peruvian dish) using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Causa Limeña (Peruvian dish)

1. You need 1 can of Tuna.
2. Prepare 1/2 of Onion.
3. Prepare 1 can of Sweet corn.
4. Prepare 1 packages of Yellow Aji (Peruvian yellow chili pepper paste).
5. It's 2 of Hard boiled eggs.
6. Prepare 1/2 of Avocado (optional).
7. You need 1/4 cup of Mayonnaise.
8. Prepare 1 pinch of Black pepper.
9. It's 1 pinch of Curry.
10. You need 1 pinch of Salt.
11. It's 1 bunch of Chopped cilantro.
12. Prepare 8 of Yellow Potatoes.

Causa Limeña (Peruvian dish) step by step

1. Slice half an onion and put it in a bowl with the sweet corn, the juice of three lemons, a pinch of salt. You can add a little bit of balsamic vinegar to add color to it. Leave it there, you will use it at the end..
2. Place the peeled potatoes in boiling water with salt until they are soft enough to be mashed.
3. Mash the potatoes adding the olive oil, the pinch of curry and the aji paste.
4. Prepare the tuna, add mayonnaise, the cilantro, a pinch of black pepper and salt.
5. With a tall cookie cutter, or anything with a tall shape, even a can can be used as a mold place a layer of the mashed potatoes, like two fingers tall, then a layer of tuna, then a layer of sliced avocado, then finish a layer of mashed potatoes.
6. Turn the mold on top of a plate and put on top of it two slices of hard boiled eggs and on top of that the mix of sliced onions and sweet corn. You can add basil or parsley to decorate it.
7. * in the middle layer you can use chicken or shrimp instead..

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