Best Spicy Cheese Potatoes Recipes

Potatoes in Spicy Cheese Sauce - Papa a La Huancaina image

Provided by Baby Kato

Categories Peruvian

Time 1h

Yield 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 15

salsa, a la Huancaina, Spicy Cheese Sauce
4 tablespoons oil, vegetable
1/2 cup onion, chopped
3 -4 chili peppers (yellow aji amarillo frozen is fine or 1/2 cup jarred aji amarillo paste)
1/4 teaspoon turmeric (optional, if you don't want it spicy add tumeric instead)
2 garlic cloves, mashed
2 cups cheese, white farmer's cheese (queso freso, may sub with feta)
4 crackers, saltine (or for slightly sweet flavor add animal crackers instead)
3/4 cup milk, evaporated
1 pinch salt (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon pepper (to taste)
8 potatoes (yellow or white)
lettuce leaf (for plating)
2 hard-boiled eggs
8 large black olives, halved

Steps:

For the sauce - Remove seeds from yellow chile peppers and chop into 1 inch pieces.
Sauté the onion, garlic, and chile peppers (or paste) in the oil until onion is softened, about 3-5 minutes. If using the tumeric option, add it now.
Once onion is softened remove from heat and let cool.
Place the onion-chile mixture in a food processor or blender, add the evaporated milk and blend.
Next add the cheese and crackers and blend until smooth.
The sauce should be fairly thick. If necessary thicken you can thicken the sauce with more saltines or thin the sauce with more .
Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve at room temperature or chilled.
For the potatoe dish - Heat a large pot of salted water to boiling and add the potatoes.
Boil the potatoes until tender, drain and let cool.
Slice the potatoes and place on top of the lettuce leaves.
Then pour the huancaína sauce over the potatoes and garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg and black olive halves.

SPICY PERUVIAN CHEESE SAUCE AND POTATOES (PAPA A LA HUANCAINA) image

Yield 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 cup aji amarillo, OR: 1 orange bell pepper and 1/4 of a habanero
1 cup Queso Fresco, OR: 1/4 cup feta cheese and 3/4 cup cream cheese
1/2 cup evaporated milk, plus more as needed
6 potatoes, boiled
4 hard boiled eggs, sliced
Lettuce, for garnish

Steps:

Begin with heating oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and sautee until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and aji paste (or bell peppers if using) and continue to cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. In a blender, add onion mixture and all remaining ingredients except potato, egg and lettuce. Blend until thoroughly combined and sauce is an even deep yellow/orange. Add more evaporated milk to reach desired consistency. Taste and add salt if necessary. Serve over potatoes, egg and lettuce. Sauce will stay in the fridge for serval days and will be more delicious as the flavours develope.

Spicy Bacon, Onion and Cheese Potatoes image

Provided by Gretchen Davis

Yield Serves 8

Number Of Ingredients 5

8 slices bacon, coarsely chopped
2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup packed grated hot pepper Monterey Jack cheese
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Cook chopped bacon in heavy large skillet over medium heat until brown and crisp. Using slotted spoon, transfer bacon to paper towels and drain. Combine bacon, potatoes and onion in prepared baking dish. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle Monterey Jack cheese over and dot with butter. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake until potatoes and onions are very tender, about 1 hour.
Preheat broiler. Uncover baking dish and broil until top of potato mixture is brown and crisp, about 2 minutes.

Spicy Cheese Potatoes image

Provided by mandagirl

Categories Potato

Time 1h15m

Yield 6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

6 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into bite size chunks
1 medium onion, diced
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
10 -12 slices American cheese
breadcrumbs

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix together; melted butter, seasoned salt, minced garlic, cayenne pepper and black pepper. Set aside.
Prepare potatoes and onions.
Mix potatoes and onions together in large bowl and add butter mixture.
Stir to coat well.
Spray a square casserole dish with non stick cooking spray.
Spread 1/2 of the potato onion mixture on bottom of dish.
Place 1/2 of the cheese slices on top of potatoes.
Repeat layers.
Sprinkle bread crumbs on top to cover.
Bake, uncovered for 1 hour at 350 degrees.