Market Stall · Salt-Wrinkled Potatoes
Papas Arrugadas con Mojo
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The potatoes are boiled in heavily salted water until it nearly evaporates, which is what wrinkles their skins into a thin, salty crust without ever peeling them.
Papas arrugadas are small potatoes boiled whole in very salty water until the skins pucker and dry, then served with mojo, a garlicky sauce in red (spicy, paprika-based) or green (cilantro or parsley-based) versions. Canarian market stalls and food carts serve them in paper bowls.
Why it's made this way: Potatoes reached the Canary Islands from the Americas in the 16th century, earlier than most of Europe, and cooks traditionally boiled them in seawater, the origin of the wrinkled, salt-crusted skin that became the islands' signature.
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