Wrinkled potatoes could be Cultural Heritage.

Is called Canarian Wrinkly potatoes or a way of cooking the potatoes unpeeled, almost unique and characteristic of this Atlantic region.

The initiatives and tourism centre (CIT) Santa Cruz de Tenerife It agreed to request the Ministry of Agriculture of the Canary Islands Government and the Cabildo de Tenerife to study the onset of a dossier to propose Unesco wrinkled potatoes to be declared Cultural heritage of the humanity.

CIT says that Unesco has already granted this distinction to the Mexican cuisine, the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese cuisine. It indicates also that, Since last year, Belgium has launched a campaign to get that Unesco granted popular potato chips (frites) the distinction of Intangible Cultural heritage of humanity, and Flanders has already declared them intangible cultural heritage of the region.

Wrinkled potatoes, Remember CIT, It is a characteristic and unique dish of the Canary Islands and in every corner of the archipelago they can be tasted with a good mojo.

It is called ‘Canarian Wrinkly potatoes or unpeeled‘ a way of cooking potatoes, almost unique and characteristic of this Atlantic region. A type of potato is mainly used in concrete, the beautiful Pope, Although other types existing in the Canary Islands can be used.

The cooking method is to boil them unpeeled and adding a lot of salt, best sea salt, so that when they are about to, and once removed excess water, is a salt crust on the shell. Also they can be cooked with sea water as was done in the past.

Although they are often used to accompany meat or fish, Sometimes they can be eaten alone, or serve as a lid. Spaniards should have seen the Pope for the first time in November of 1532, designates the CIT, When, from the Peruvian coast, reached at the beginning of the year, they amounted to the Andes to seize Cajamarca, to 2.800 metres above sea level.

They have posted some 46 different varieties, These ones 25 they may correspond to old potatoes, including some triploid potato, that only exist in the Andes and have never come to European lands or to the United States.

Are Black potatoes egg yolk, Yellow inside and easy to peel, It is of a species that exists only in the Andes and in the Canary Islands, Since the climate of the Islands is like the Andean zone.