Tambor de Papa

Recipe from Ariadna Sachdeva, Regional Education Specialist

This is a great meal for a cold winter day. It will make you feel warm and satisfied! My family loves making it and especially, eating it!

Ingredients

• 6 medium-sized potatoes
• 2 cups of grated cheese of your choice (I love Mozzarella)
• 1 pound of ground pork
• ¼ cup of melted butter
• ½ cup of milk
• 1 onion (in small cubes)
• 4 minced garlic
• 1 green or red pepper (in small cubes)
• 1 tbs powder cumin
• 1 tsp of salt
• 2 tbs tomato puree
• 2tbs of cooking oil
• Pepper and other spices to your taste

Instructions

1. In a frying pan, pour the oil until warm. Sautee the onions, garlic and pepper until slightly brown.
2. Add cumin, salt, tomato puree and the rest of the spices to your taste.
3. Add the ground pork meat and fry together with all the spices. Let it cook for about 10 minutes until it is well cooked. The meat needs to be dry with not too much sauce.
4. In a separate pot, boil the potatoes (I like to peel them). You can add salt to the water. Once the potatoes are soft, mash them and add butter and milk until the potatoes are creamy and tasty.
5. Take a deep glass or metal bowl and brush it with butter or oil. In the bowl, put a layer of mashed potatoes of about 1 inch wide. Then add a layer of ground beef to cover all the surface. Add another layer of mashed potatoes. Then add a layer of grated cheese. Add another layer of mashed potatoes and ground beef.
6. Preheat the oven at 350 degrees Celsius. Place your tambor de papa in the oven for 5 minutes. Then take it out and use a flat tray to put underneath the bowl. Rotate the tambor de papa so it sits on the flat tray as if it were a cake. Once the tambor de papa is out of your metal or glass bowl, put the rest of the grated cheese on top, covering all the tambor de papa.
7. Put it back in the oven for about 5 to 10 minutes or until you see the cheese has completely melted.
8. Take it out of the oven and let it sit for 5 minutes.
9. Enjoy with your family! My kids love it 😊