Papas Arrugadas with Mojo-Salsa: Smoked Canarian Wrinkly Potatoes

This is a signature dish of Canarian cuisine. For the salsa I used bell peppers for a mild flavor, but traditionaly spicy chili peppers are used.

Green week ended yesterday, an ancient Slavic fertility festival. Odly enough Whit Monday is a public holiday in Austria, but not in the slavic country Poland.

Continuing yesterday's tradition of lightning a bonfire, called sobótka here in Poland, I lit up the grill again. In this dish I will show the process of smoking the potatoes.

Serves 6

⏱ There is no rush when grilling

Mojo-Salsa

• 6 red or yellow bell peppers
• Fresh herbs as choosen
• Pinch of sugar
• Sea salt
• 3 finger pinch Cumin
• 3 cloves garlic
• 250 ml olive oil
• some white bread without crust
• Chardonnay vinegar to taste

For the herbs I headed to the garden and snipped some dill...

a little love parsley...

a tad oregano...

and a trifle curly leaf parsley.

Cut the bell peppers in half and remove the seeds. Put on a backing dish and cover with the herbs. Season with salt sugar and cumin seeds. Crush the cloves of garlic, add to the dish, drizzle everything with some olive oil.

Heat the oven to 160°C/320°F and braise for 40 minutes until tender.

Remove the herbs and mix together with the juices into a fine paste.

Add the remaining oil and emulsify like a mayonnaise. Add bread till you get the desired consistency. Season with the vinegar.

You can season with white wine vinegar too, but take into account that Chardonnay vinegar consists of 25% grape juice and is very sweet.

Papas Arugadas

• 1 kg early potatoes
• 2 oranges
• 4 limes
• 6 sprigs of rosemary
• 2 T coriander seeds
• 2 T allspice seeds
• 2 T smoked salt
• 2 T coarse sea salt
• 4 slices ginger
• Dry herbs for smoking

Juice the limes and the oranges.

Make a broth from 3 liters of water and the ingredients, then cook the potatoes in it till tender. For early potatoes that would be approximately 15 minutes after bringing to a boil and reducing to medium flame.

Finally we can go outside to the grill. Put a suitabe pot on the grill and fill with the dry herbs, I used some mint, blueberry leaves, nettles and sage. Be creative or use what you got.

There is no need to ignite the herbs, they will burn and start to smoke from the heat of the coals alone.

Put the Potatoes in some grid and place on the pot. Feel free to let the potatoes chill before, they will warm up anyway.

When the smoking begins, cover and smoke for approximately 15 minutes. Add herbs to the pot if the smoke stops.

Serve the wrinkly beauties (arrugadas means wrinkly) with the mojo-salsa and enjoy a beautiful outdoor day with family and friends.

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Bon appétit,
Miron