Do you like French fries? Or perhaps hash browns? How about baked potatoes? Or potato gratin? Perhaps something more creamy like mashed potatoes? Maybe potato soup, or potato gnocchi pasta? Many dishes from all corners of the world use the potato, but do you know where potatoes originated? That’s right, potatoes come from Peru, and today, May 30th, Peruvians everywhere are celebrating National Potato Day.
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Would You Like Fries With That?
Deep Fried Challenged
Top Left: Make the mashed potato pancakes. Top Right: Add the savory beef filling. Bottom Left: Form the filled dumplings by hand. Bottom Right: Lightly fried result.
I’d like to think that I can cook almost any Peruvian dish, specially ones that truly inspire me or make me salivate at the mere thought of eating them. But I recently realized that I am deep fried challenged, that is, I can’t bring myself to deep fry anything.
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