Recipe: Perfect Huancaína Sauce

Huancaína Sauce. Huancaina sauce, a traditional Peruvian cheese sauce, is made by blending aji peppers, queso fresco, and onions. Serve over boiled potatoes for an easy dinner. Photo: The Gaztronome. by Virgilio Martinez.

Today I'm Making My FAVORITE Sauce In The World. HUANCAINA SAUCE or "Crema De Huancaina" And I'm Letting Go My Secrets On How This. Huancaina Sauce is one of Peru's darling recipes. You can cook Huancaína Sauce using 5 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Huancaína Sauce

1. Prepare 5 of Whole Yellow Chilies.
2. You need 7 Oz. of Mexican White Cheese (Dry Curd COttage Cheese).
3. You need 1 Pack of Saltine Crackers (8 units).
4. It's 10 Oz of Evaporated Milk.
5. You need 3 Teaspoons of Salt.

This particular version is the one I make at home (and my favorite!), but each Peruvian cook claims to have "the best" recipe for it. The one in this recipe is on the left. Peruvians make some great sauces, or salsas. Here is one of my favorites.

Huancaína Sauce instructions

1. Wash the Yellow Chili with plenty of water..
2. Crush the Saltine Crackers as shown in the picture..
3. Put the Saltine Crackers into the blender..
4. Put the Mexican Cheese into the blender..
5. Cut the Yellow Chili Skin and put it into the blender. Make sure not to include the seeds unless you want it to be very spicy..
6. Add Salt..
7. Add Milk..
8. Blend for 5 minutes. You should get a thick light yellow sauce..
9. Serve and enjoy!.

Find huancaina sauce stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. Huancaína sauce means that it is made in the style of people from Huancayo, the Peruvian Spoon sauce over potatoes; arrange egg wedges and olives around potatoes on each plate. Peruvian huancaina sauce is a must for the delicious traditional potato dish papas a la huancaina. But this mix of queso fresco, sunny aji amarillo peppers, and onions has more culinary options that that.