Highland Potato & Cheese Soup (Locro de Papa)

Why this dish works

Highland Potato & Cheese Soup (Locro de Papa) is built for 4 servings and lands at roughly 75 kcal per plate, with 12g protein, 40g carbohydrate and 10g fat across the recipe. It comes together in about 40 minutes using 9 whole-food ingredients — led by yellow potatoes, peeled and cubed, onion, finely diced, garlic cloves, minced — so nothing here relies on packaged sauces, refined sugar or ultra-processed shortcuts. That balance is what keeps it a realistic weeknight option rather than a weekend project.

The entry sits inside our Ecuador collection and carries the Gluten-Free, Anti-Inflammatory, Blood Pressure tags, so it slots straight into the Smart Recipe Finder when you filter by dietary focus or allergens. Scale the portions in the recipe drawer and the ingredient quantities and macros recalculate together; sync it to your shopping list and the pantry tracker subtracts what you already own before the list is generated.

Cooking and storing it well

Read the method through once before you start — the 6 steps are written in the order a working kitchen would run them, with prep that can overlap grouped together. Hands-free cook mode reads each step aloud and runs the timers, so your phone can stay on the counter. Season at the end rather than the beginning: salt, acid and good olive oil do more for the finished plate when they are adjusted against the cooked dish. Leftovers keep well chilled for two to three days in a sealed container; bring anything dressed or herb-heavy back to room temperature before serving so the aromatics come forward again.