In my article “Italian & Vegan: Panforte” I told you allready that my Italian guest Mattia lives in Peru. And because he´s such a good cook I asked him to teach me a typical Peruvian dish as well.
Actually we had kind of a south american cooking evening because his Guatemalan friend Heidi also made some platanos maduros (check out my blog about them – “Costa Rican & Vegan: Platonos maduros“) and Guatemalan tortillas with bean paste, salsa and guacamole *yummy*!!
The Peruvian dish we made is called Causa rellena which means sth. like filled cause! 😉 It´s pretty typical and was originally a dish for the poor. During the war between Peru and Chile the Peruvian people had not much to eat as you can imagine. What they had were potatoes – the main ingredient of causa rellena. The “rellena” – the filling can be everything you have in the house. There are fillings with chicken and tuna but of course vegetables are a pretty good filling as well.
We decided to make a mushroom based filling for our Causa rellena. Usually you take yellow potatoes for the potato layers in the dish but we did it with normal ones and it turned out pretty well.
(Vegan) Causa Rellena
- 1 kg (yellow) potatoes
- 250 g mushrooms
- 3 carrots
- 1 onion
- 1 zucchini
- 1 pepperoni
- 1 lime
- 3 tomatos
- olive oil
- salt & pepper
- olives (optional)
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