Peruvian Tuna Fish Potato Loaf so Called "causa"

Chef jaggerbowie#897273's Note:

this is another peruvian recipe (from yanuq.com) http://www.yanuq.com/english/recipe.asp?idreceta=221. preparation time is aprox

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 kg yellow potato
• ¼ 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
• ½ red onion , diced
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 sliced avocados
• 2 cups mayonnaise
• parsley
• 8 Spanish olives
• 2 hardboiled egg

Optional

• red pepper , thinly sliced

Directions:

1. Boil potatoes with salt. Peel and mash. Combine with salt, white 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 white 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.