Salchi is a word for sausages and papa means potato in Spanish. Put them together and you get a word that is synonymous with fast food (but not in a bad way). The Salchipapa is one of the most popular savoury snacks on the streets of every town in Peru. Every Peruvian kitchen has seen its share of this simple, meat and fries snack. Salty, fatty, starchy, and packed with flavor, salchipapas is the ultimate food-on-the-go but it also works as a satisfying meal to share among friends.
In English, we could call it “hot dog and french fries” but I think the original word sounds better. It’s also shorter and suits the simplicity of this starter or snack. Serve tomato sauce (ketchup), mustard or aji amarillo sauce and you’ve got an incredibly tasty meal that’s easy to make, inexpensive, and filling.
Walk around Lima, Peru in the late afternoon and you’ll soon catch the scent of salchipapa from the stalls of street food vendors. In fact, the dish was born on the streets but you can also find it in markets, fast food joints, and some restaurants.
In this recipe, we used mini-Wiener sausages but you can use sliced hot dog sausages if you prefer the meat in smaller pieces.
Salchipapa Recipe – Peruvian Sausage & Fries Snack
Ingredients
- 3 large potatoes 500 g.
- 2 cups oil
- 250 g. Wiener sausages
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon aji amarillo paste
- ¼ cup tomato sauce Optional
- ¼ cup mustard
- 2 tablespoons coriander chopped
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Wash the potatoes and peel them with a vegetable peeler. Rinse the peeled potatoes and pat dry with a tea towel. Place them on the cutting board, and with a long, sharp knife cut them crosswise in half.
- Take each half and cut it into slices about 1 cm thick. Then take each sliced piece and cut 1 cm thick sticks lengthwise. While you are peeling the potatoes, immerse the sticks in water to prevent them from turning black. When you have peeled all the potatoes, and cut into sticks. Drain the water, pat dry, and add salt to the potato sticks.
- Pour the oil into a skillet over medium-high heat. When you see small bubbles rising from the bottom, add the potato sticks. Make sure they are dry to avoid boiling oil bubbles that can cause injury.
- Fry the potatoes for about three minutes, then carefully, with a kitchen spatula, flip the potato sticks until they are evenly browned on all sides.
- When the potatoes are golden brown, remove them from the oil, let them drain a little on the kitchen spatula and then place them on a flat plate covered with absorbent paper.
- Cut the sausages into pieces to your liking (or use small cocktail-style sausages) and fry them for about a minute in the still-hot oil where the potatoes were cooked.
- Drain the sausages, and place them on a plate covered with absorbent paper.
- Mix half a cup of mayonnaise with the aji amarillo paste. Stir with a fork until you have a completely homogeneous mixture.
- Arrange the potato chips on a plate, add the sausages on top, add the sauces, and parsley to your liking.
- Place the sauces in small containers near the plate and enjoy while it’s still hot.
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