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LOCRO DE PAPAS (SOUTH AMERICAN POTATO SOUP)
Locro de papas (South American potato soup)
Locro de papas
Adapted from a recipe from Gourmet, February 2007
Orangette is one of my favorite food blogs. I have to stop myself from making every sweet thing she offers up recipes for (she can’t eat much of them, given how thin she is!), but I love the way she writes about food. Her description of a hearty winter soup had me hankering to try it. Dan loooooooves soup, so I decided to give it a go.
But first . . . first I had to find the annatto (or achiote) seeds. We went to a local food co-op. No luck. Whole Foods. No luck. Publix. No luck. Finally we gave in and drove out to an international farmer’s market outside Atlanta. At last! 20 round-trip miles and 57 cents later, we were set.
The soup had a fairly subtle but wonderful flavor. It’s not a fancy soup; it’s a comforting, bone-warming one. I highly recommend you try it when you notice that cold weather is headed your way . . . or when you’re not feeling so great.
(Oh, and as a side note, if you live in the US and want to try this soup recipe, but you live somewhere rural where you think you could not find annatto/achiote seeds, send me an email with your snail mail address at sally(dot)parrott(at)gmail(dot)com. I’ll send the first person who writes me a request the two rounded teaspoons you need to make a pot of this stuff! By the way, I wish I could send it overseas, but I’m too po’ for that. Sorry!)
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