Peruvian Tuna Fish Potato Loaf So Called "causa"

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 kg yellow potato
• 1/4 cup oil, for frying
• 2 key limes, juice of
• salt
• pepper
• 1 tablespoon ground fresh yellow chili
• 1 1/8 lbs fresh tuna fish or 2 (6 ounce) cans of tunafish packed in oil
• 1/2 red onion, diced
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 sliced avocados
• 2 cups mayonnaise
• parsley
• 8 spanish olives
• 2 hardboiled egg
• red pepper, thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 boil potatoes with salt. peel and mash. combine with salt, ground pepper, key lime juice, aji and oil.
• 2 mix tuna fish with mayonnaise and diced onion.
• 3 spread potato mixture on a thin rectangular sheet of plastic. spread the filling: top with tomatoes, sliced avocado and roll using the plastic to help form a round loaf.
• 4 refrigerate for one hour, remove plastic and place on a serving dish. garnish with parsley, chopped olives and hard boiled eggs, sliced avocado (with drops of key lime juice to prevent discoloring) and if desired, mayonnaise and red pepper slices.
• 5 note: if canned tuna fish is used, season with key lime juice and chopped onion.
• 6 if fresh tuna fish is used, bake first with salt and ground pepper.
• 7 you can try those different fillings for this dish:.
• 8 avocado, mayonnaise, diced tomato and boiled diced eggs.
• 9 avocado, mayonnaise, beets and boiled diced eggs.
• 10 shrimps, mayonnaise, ketchup, drops of lime juice and ground yelow chili.
• 11 crabmeat and mayonnaise.
• 12 octopus in olive sauce.
• 13 olives and mayonnaise.