Canary-style wrinkled potatoes with dips (Papas arrugas con mojos-inspired)
🌱🌶️🥔🇪🇸 Grandma Sita learns with David how to make Canarian-style mojo sauces spread over wrinkly potatoes, one of the region’s most famous dishes.
😋 This tasty plant-based recipe is inspired by the popular “Mojo Verde” (green mojo) and “Mojo Picón” (spicy red mojo) sauces served alongside “Papas Arrugadas” which translates to wrinkly potatoes.
INGREDIENTS
*FOR GREEN MOJO
3 cloves of garlic
1/3 green pepper
A handful of parsley
One teaspoon of coarse salt
One teaspoon of cumin
One coffee cup of olive oil
A bit of vinegar
*FOR SPICY RED MOJO
3 garlic
1/3 red pepper
1/3 hot chili pepper
One teaspoon of coarse salt
One teaspoon of cumin
One teaspoon of paprika
One coffee cup of olive oil
A bit of vinegar
*FOR WRINKLY POTATOES
Baby potatoes
Coarse salt
METHOD
*Green Mojo/Mojo Verde
1. Add 3 cloves of garlic to a container.
2. Chop the green pepper and the parley and add them to the container.
3. Add coarse salt, cumin, olive oil, and a tiny bit of vinegar.
4. Blend everything and adjust the ingredients.
*Spicy Red Mojo/Mojo Picón
1. Add 3 cloves of garlic to a container.
2. Chop the red pepper and a bit of hot chili pepper and add them to the container.
3. Add coarse salt, cumin, paprika, olive oil, and a tiny bit of vinegar.
4. Blend everything and adjust the ingredients.
*Wrinkly potatoes/papas arrugadas
1. Clean the potatoes and put them in a pot.
2. Fill the pot with water but without covering the potatoes completely.
3. Add 3 tablespoons of coarse salt.
4. Boil on medium heat until potatoes are soft.
5. Remove half of the water and boil until all water is consumed.
6. Served wrinkly potatoes/papas arrugas with both a Green Mojo/Mojo Verde and Spicy Red Mojo/Mojo Picón, they make memorable and delicious tapas. Enjoy!
🧓🏻❤️ Grandma Sita’s tip: Feel free to prepare your mojos a week before it is to be used, so it tastes best! It keeps well in the fridge in a jar with a lid. Bonus, it only takes a few minutes to make.
➡️ Mojo is an uncooked, fresh, and vibrant sauce that’s used as a condiment, as a topping, or as a marinade for fish, chicken, vegetables, and more. There are many varieties of mojo and all Mojo sauces have their roots in the Canary Islands, Spain.
📗In the time since its creation in the Canary Islands, Mojos have found their way around the world, especially to areas with heavy Canarian emigration like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other parts of the Caribbean and broader Latin America.
🤗🌎 Grandma Sita looks forward to the weekends because that’s the time she invites a grandchild into her kitchen to cook popular dishes from their countries and together get inspired to twist them into delicious new plant-based meals. Sustainability tastes great everywhere!
