Papas con Mojo

The Canary Islands' Signature Dish: Small Wrinkled Potatoes Boiled in Their Jackets with Mojo Sauce

Papas con mojo (with red an green mojo sauce), the signature dish of the Canary Islands. Image by Hans. Pixabay content license. https://pixabay.com/photos/potatoes-wrinkled-potatoes-starter-452972/

Spice on our honeymoon

“Papas con mojo!” my Spanish friend insisted. Potatoes with mojo sauce.

Susana was preparing me for my honeymoon on the Canary Islands years ago, teaching me how to order food and count pesos in Spanish. When it came to what dish to order, she was of one mind: Papas con mojo is the signature recipe of the Canary Islands.

“You have to try it,” she said. And what she described sounded mouth-watering: small potatoes boiled in sea water, dried until their skins get wrinkly, and then topped with mojo, a spicy garlic-chili pepper sauce.

It’s a dish Darwin would have encountered had he been allowed to land.