Papas de Zipaquirá Cundinamarca (Salt-Crusted Potatoes)

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Source
Gran Libro de la Cocina Colombiana
Cooking time
60 minutes
Number of servings
8
Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients
1 kg tocana potatoes
250 gr salt
Directions
  1. Cook the tocana potatoes, whole and unpeeled, with lots of salt and water to cover them, until the water dries and the potatoes are covered with a thin layer of salt.
  2. The popular way to cook them is by putting them in the bottoms where salt from the mines is cooked.
  3. They are washed and put in sacks or baskets and lowered to the bottom, left 1 hour, removed and left to dry to serve.