Rocotos Rellenos

So we have been taking cooking lessons and in order to remember the recipes, I am going to post them on my blog so that we can all share and try them. The food down here is absolutly amazing.

Rocotos Rellenos
Ingredients

• 6-8 Hot Red Peppers
• 1/3 cup of vegetable or soy oil
• 1 diced red onion
• 6 cloves of crushed garlic
• 1 and 1/2 lbs of cubed beef steak
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 12-16 seedless black olives
• 1 diced tomato
• 1-2 hard boiled eggs
• 1 raw egg
• 6 large boiled and skinned potatos
• 2 lbs fresh cheese
• 1 and 1/2 cups of evaporated milk
• 1/4 cup of toasted peanuts
• salt and pepper to taste
• 3 cups vinegar

Instructions

1). Cut the top off the peppers and remove the seeds and viens. Save the tops Put the peppers in water with 1 tsp of salt, 1/2 cup vinegar, and 1 cup of sugar. Bring the water to a boil and boil for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, strain the peppers out of the water and repeat two more times. This is to remove the picante from the peppers.

2). Heat some oil in a frying pan and add the garlic. After a minute, add the onions and a tsp of salt to help pull out the water. After the onions become translucent, add the tomatoes and cook for two minutes. Last, brown the meat, add a little cumin, add the raisins and peanuts. Cook on low-medium for 10-15 minutes.

3). Butter a large oven dish. Thinly slice the potatoes and layer into the oven dish. Start with a layer of potatoes, then a layer of cheese, layer of potatoes, layer of cheese and end with a layer of potatoes. Add small pinches of butter to the top of the potatoes.

4) Remove the peppers from the last wash of water and rinse. Fill the peppers with the meat and vegetable mix, add two black olives per pepper, and add a slice of hard boiled egg. Top with a thin slice of cheese and cover with the top of the pepper. Place in the oven dish with the potatoes.

5) Whisk the evaporated milk, 1 tsp of salt, and 1/2 cup of water in a small bowl and pour over the oven plate.

6) Beat one egg white until foaming, add the egg yolk and pour the foam over the oven plate. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees or until the cheese is melted.

Serve with Pisco Sour :)