How do you make canarian potatoes: Wrinkled Potatoes (Canary Island Potatoes)

Опубликовано: February 7, 2023 в 6:00 am

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Make the Best Canarian Potatoes with Mojo Sauce in 2022

If there is any dish that comes to mind if you think about Canarian food, it’s the Canarian potatoes, also known as papas arrugadas! These tiny wrinkled potatoes In combination with the mojo sauce is a true delicacy and a must-try if you visit Tenerife. The history of these Canarian potatoes is quite impressive. In the 16th century, the potatoes were brought to Spain all the way from South America, and from there on brought to the Canary Islands.

Available in just about any restaurant in Tenerife

At first, people didn’t really know what to do with these potatoes, so they were used as an exhibition at the botanical gardens. Nowadays it’s become an important part of the food culture in the Canary Islands. Almost every restaurant in Tenerife serves Canarian potatoes together with mojo sauce.

Canarian potatoes are gluten-free

Since the Canarian potatoes are gluten-free and also suitable for vegans, it’s a very popular dish. If you would like to buy the Canarian potatoes for yourself, then most of the large supermarkets in the Canary Islands should normally have both mojo sauce and potatoes in their selection. Down below, you can find Canarian potatoes with mojo sauce recipe.

Mojo Sauce Recipe

What is a mojo sauce? Mojo sauce is well known in the Canary Islands and is either red or green – mojo rojo and mojo verde. Both are often served at the same time and are eaten with meat, fish and, of course, the Canarian potatoes. Buying the mojo sauce outside of the canary islands is often difficult. That’s why making your own mojo sauce is a great solution. This is a mojo recipe that we like, but feel free to tweak it:

Red mojo sauce

1 piece of bread torn into tiny pieces
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 large red peppers thickly chopped
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
4 small chillies chopped
6 cloves chopped garlic

Green mojo sauce

1/2 cup of fresh chopped coriander or parsley
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 slice of bread torn into tiny pieces
2 large green bell peppers roughly chopped
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
4 cloves of garlic minced
4 tablespoons olive oil

Put all the ingredients for the green mojo or red mojo sauce in your blender and mix until everything is well dissolved and you have a solid sauce. Pour the mojo sauce into a jar and keep it in the fridge for up to two months.

Canarian Potatoes Recipe

How to make Canarian potatoes? In order to make this dish, you should look for either Papa Negra (Tenerife), Papa Bonita (Gran Canaria) or small-sized quick-cooking potatoes. The truly authentic way to make papas arrugadas is by boiling the potatoes in seawater. This recipe for Canarian potatoes is an easy alternative.
You need:

1¼ pounds (about 1 kg) of small, quick-cooking potatoes.
¼ cup of coarse sea salt.
Large stockpot.

Time needed: 40 minutes.

Wash the potatoes well and place them in a large stockpot.
Cover the potatoes with cold water and add the sea salt.
Boil the potatoes until just cooked through, about 20 minutes.
(Add water if too much evaporates)
Pour off the water and rest the potatoes on the stove on a very low heat until all water has evaporated and the potatoes are covered in a layer of sea salt.
Now you’re ready to eat! Don’t forget to add the mojo sauce and enjoy your meal!

Easy Canarian Potatoes Recipe – How to Make Papas Arrugadas

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How to Make Papas Arrugadas or Canarian Potatoes

Papas arrugadas. They may look as though they’re just potatoes with more wrinkles than Mick Jagger and a crusting of salt on the top but…No, hang on, it’s true. The recipe boils down (ho-ho!) to potatoes and, er, salt. Some daring souls throw in a splash of lemon juice but I suspect that’s because they feel embarrassed to list a “recipe” with only two ingredients.

Yet papas arrugadas, or wrinkled potatoes, taste better than they look.

The Story Behind Papas Arrugadas

When the Spanish conquistadores headed home from South America, they brought with them the humble potato and made a pit stop in the Canary Islands, just off the northwest coast of Africa. The islanders took these pebble-sized potatoes and invented this deceptively simple dish.

According to tradition, you cook the papas in saltwater instead of fresh, since freshwater is difficult to come by on a small volcanic island.

But it’s not only the recipe that links to South America. It’s the language too. In the Canary Islands, you’ll hear the word papas for potatoes, rather than the patatas from mainland Spain.

What do papas arrugadas taste like?

If served well, papas arrugadas carry a hefty bite, with a surprisingly moreish sweet-salty tang. Served in earthenware dishes, the potatoes usually come with mojo – a spicy sauce made from peppers (mojo rojo) and coriander (mojo verde) respectively. Both include vinegar and a hint of garlic to bring the dish alive.

But how do you make these Canarian potatoes? Here comes the salted potatoes recipe that tastes better than it sounds…

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How to Make Papas Arrugadas: The Recipe

The Canarian Wrinkly POtatoes REcipe – with Mojo

When it comes to a decent Canarian potatoes recipe, choose good quality small potatoes (bigger than new, smaller than baking.) For the completely authentic papas arrugadas con mojo experience, you’ll need either papas negra from Tenerife or papas bonita from Gran Canaria.

But truthfully, any small potato will do. Even new potatoes are forgivable.

How to cook canarian potatoes:

Put them in a pan, pour water on top but don’t cover them completely
Throw in loads of salt (recipes vary from saltwater levels to several teaspoons. Experiment. Unless, of course, you have high blood pressure. )
Boil away until they are soft when you pierce them with a knife
Now for the tricky bit…drain away the water but continue cooking on a low heat until the skins wrinkle and salt crystals appear. Keep them moving otherwise they’ll burn…
Take these gorgeous boiled salted potatoes and serve while still hot with cold mojo sauce. Salud!

Serve with Mojo Sauce

Pronounced MOh-ho, mojo is the best part of this whole papas arrugadas ensemble. It is the ginger, wasabi and soy equivalent to vegetable sushi.

In the Canary Islands, you’ll hear people talk about mainly green mojo (mojo verde) and red mojo (mojo rojo), but in truth you’ll find more flavours and mojo recipes than you’ll have time to make in your lifetime.

Is it papas arrugadas or patatas arrugadas?

*Papas arrugadas also go by the name of papas arrugas or patatas arrugadas across the rest of Spain. Although, typically they are a Canarian potato dish. You’ll even hear the variation papa arrugadas with a silent s in the first word. But the canarian potatoes recipe itself? That’s pretty much always the same.

Most mojos are based on garlic, vinegar and olive oil, with red or green chilli, paprika, cumin and coriander mixed in.

If you’re feeling adventurous, you can make your own by grinding the dry spices in a pestle and mortar and whisking together the rest with enough oil and vinegar in a blender. The consistency should by runnier than standard ketchup but not quite as loose as a French salad dressing.

Or, of course, the easier option is to buy a few jars of the stuff, either at the airport or by ordering mojo online when home.

Check out our food guide to Tenerife as well!

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There’s more to those Canary Islands than just canarian potatoes. Don’t forget you can go whale watching and visit three UNESCO World Heritage Sites in one day in Tenerife alone!

For more canarian recipes, dishes and restaurants to explore, check out our Tenerife Food Guide. Salud!

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If you have been to the Canary Islands, you have definitely tried this dish, one of the most popular in our area. Canarian potatoes are also called “wrinkled” potatoes. These are small tubers that are boiled in their uniforms in salt water, and earlier in sea water, until it boils completely, so that salt crystals remain on the peel. These potatoes are eaten unpeeled along with Canarian mojo sauces – red mojo rojo (pepper-based) and green mojo verde (cilantro or parsley). To say it’s delicious is an understatement! Unfortunately, tourists are often served regular potatoes, not the special variety arrugadas negro / black shriveled. Such potatoes have a black skin, and inside it is yellow. The difference in price is significant: 1 kg of plain potatoes in the markets costs 1 euro with kopecks, and black potatoes cost from 4 to 8 euros.

Ingredients:

for 1 kg of potatoes – 350 g of coarse sea salt.

I had 500 grams of potatoes, respectively – 175 grams of salt.

Preparation:

Boil the potatoes until tender in salted water, drain the water, leave the potatoes in the pot on minimum heat until the water has completely evaporated and the tubers are covered with salt crystals.

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Papas arrugadas with green Mojo sauce

If you have ever been to the Canary Islands, you could not help but fall in love with this very simple but incredibly tasty dish. It would seem, what could be simpler than boiled potatoes with different sauces?

But, having returned home, they probably tried to cook it, and rarely anyone turned out to be as fantastically tasty as in the Canary Islands. Undoubtedly, the main secret is a special variety of small potatoes grown on volcanic rocks. But, even if your nearest store does not have potatoes from Tenerife or Gran Canaria, I will tell you a little secret how you can cook this dish from ordinary small potatoes.

And, of course, it is impossible to imagine Canarian potatoes without Mojo sauces. This fragrant green cilantro sauce goes well with a variety of fish dishes. Therefore, cook it a lot and store it in the refrigerator, it will definitely come in handy!

Mojo sauce ingredients:

6 garlic cloves
1 bunch cilantro finely chopped
2 green peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon cumin
50 gr. coarse salt
250 ml extra virgin olive oil
75 gr wine vinegar
3 tablespoons broth, preferably potato
1/2 avocado (optional, optional)

Ingredients for papas arrugadas:

1 kg black canary potatoes or use any other small potato (not young!)
250 gr coarse salt
water

Preparation:

First, prepare the potatoes. Wash tubers thoroughly in running water. Then, send them to the pan, fill with water 2-3 cm above the level of the potatoes, add 250 g of salt and set to boil.

When the water boils, reduce the heat to medium, cover the pot with a damp kitchen towel and cover with a lid. The lid should fit as tightly as possible.

Let the water in the pot evaporate. If the potatoes are completely cooked, and the water has not all boiled away, it’s okay. Turn off the heat and drain the remaining water from the pan, reserving some for making the sauce.

Cover the pot again and shake the potatoes well several times to make the potatoes more wrinkled (arrugadas in Spanish).

Again, cover the pot with a damp towel, then a lid and leave the potatoes to “sweat” a little more so that they finally become wrinkled.

While the potatoes are cooking, we can prepare the Mojo sauce. Let’s start by grinding the cumin seeds in a mortar.

Then add green peppercorns, cilantro, salt and rub everything well.