Papa Rellena (stuffed Potato- Peruvian Style)
Papa Rellena (stuffed Potato- Peruvian Style)

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, papa rellena (stuffed potato- peruvian style). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Papa Rellena (stuffed Potato- Peruvian Style) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Papa Rellena (stuffed Potato- Peruvian Style) is something that I have loved my whole life.

Papa rellena is delicious comfort food, similar to mashed potato pancakes, but with a surprise ground beef center. This is an excellent recipe for using up leftover mashed potatoes. First, you prepare a seasoned ground beef filling, similar to an empanada filling. Place the potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook papa rellena (stuffed potato- peruvian style) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Papa Rellena (stuffed Potato- Peruvian Style):
  1. Get 1 kg Potatoes
  2. Take 200 grams Yucca
  3. Take 2 Onions finely chopped
  4. Make ready 2 clove Garlic
  5. Get 350 grams Beef chopped or ground
  6. Get 2 Tomatoes finely chopped
  7. Prepare 1 Paprika
  8. Get 1 as needed Salt
  9. Prepare 1 as needed Black Pepper
  10. Make ready 100 grams Olives chopped
  11. Make ready 3 Eggs - hard boiled
  12. Make ready 1 as needed Flour
  13. Make ready 2 Eggs
  14. Take 1 dash Oregano
  15. Prepare 1 as needed Oil for frying

Papa rellena, or potato croquette, is a classic Peruvian appetizer that can fill you up like a complete meal. Make them extra large (as does Isolina) or bite-sized to feed friends and family, and top them off with salsa criolla. Papa rellena is a stuffed potato fritter. The potatoes are first mashed and then stuffed with deliciousness, like ground beef, onions, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, raisins and black olives, before being fried.

Steps to make Papa Rellena (stuffed Potato- Peruvian Style):
  1. Boil the potatoes with the yucca, until done. While hot peel them and press, using the potato presser. Season it with salt and pepper. - Set it aside until the stuffing is ready!
  2. In a medium-high heat pan cook the onions and garlic until tender. Add the tomatoes. When done add the meat previously season with salt, pepper and paprika. The meat is going to release its juices, don't let it dry up. You want to have a moist stuffing. Sprinkle oregano.
  3. When the meat is cooked add the olive and the hard boil eggs cut in small pieces. Mix them all together and you have your stuffing ready.
  4. Grab some potato to make like a tortilla. Use the flour to help you form it in your hand. Put one or two spoons of meat in the center and close it carefully with out breaking it.
  5. In a plate beat the two eggs and put some flour in another plate. Pass the potato first rolling it in the flour, then the beaten eggs and again in flour.
  6. Heat up the oil and when hot fry the potato until brown. When ready, pat dry them and serve hot. You can serve it with a salsa criolla. (You can find the recipe in my profile)

Papa rellena is a stuffed potato fritter. The potatoes are first mashed and then stuffed with deliciousness, like ground beef, onions, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, raisins and black olives, before being fried. Potato or papa for our Peruvian friends, is a plant. Yes, a plant that is highly consumed in Peru. Papa rellena means "stuffed potato", and it basically is mashed potato stuffed with minced beef, raisins, olives, and hard-boiled egg, and pan fried untill it's golden on the outside.

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