Fried Cassava Yuccas With Peruvian Huancaina Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Peel yucca and cut into 4 cylinders; then split in half and remove the root. Place yucca in a large pot. Add enough water to cover yucca and season with salt. Bring to a boil and simmer until fork tender, about 30 minutes.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool. Brush with butter and place on grill. Cook about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove and season with salt.
• Meanwhile, in a skillet, heat 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat. Add onion, aji, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper and saute until onion becomes translucent. Remove from heat and add to blender. Add cheese and hard-boiled egg and blend. Slowly drizzle in heavy cream and remaining 2 tablespoons oil until sauce consistency. Adjust salt before serving.
• Serve yucca with huancaina sauce, garnished with hard-boiled egg, olives, and cilantro.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat; saute onion, aji peppers, and garlic until onion softens and mixture is bright yellow, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer mixture to a blender; add milk and blend until smooth. Add queso fresco and crackers to mixture and blend until sauce is smooth and the consistency of thick yogurt. Season with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Peel and rinse yuccas.
• Cut in 2 or 3 pieces depending on the size.
• Cook yuccas in salted water until soft and tender when pierced with a fork. Drain and cool.
• Cut yuccas in ½ x 2 inches (1.5 x5 cm).
• Heat oil in a skillet and fry yuccas until golden. Season.
• Drain fat in paper towel.
• Yucca sticks can be frozen until ready to use.
• Remove from freezer and place immediately in hot oil until golden and crispy.
• Serve with Huancaína Sauce as an appetizer.
• Huancaína Sauce:.
• Place ají in a blender.
• Pour milk and blend.
• Sauté onion with garlic in oil until cooked.
• Add this mixture to blender together with the cheese.
• While blending add oil until a creamy sauce is obtained.

Steps:

• Peel and rinse cassava. Cut in 2 or 3 pieces depending the size. Cook yuccas in salted water until soft and tender when pierced with a fork. Drain and cool.
• Cut cassava in ½ x 2 inches (1.5 x5 cm).
• Heat oil in a skillet and fry cassava until golden. Season. Drain fat in paper towel.
• cassava sticks may be freezed until ready to use. Remove from freezer and place immediately in hot oil until golden and crispy.
• Serve with Huancaína Sauce as an appetizer.
• Huancaína Sauce:.
• Place chili in a blender. Pour milk and blend.
• Sauté onion with garlic in oil until cooked.
• Add this mixture to blender together with the cheese.
• While blending add oil until a creamy sauce is obtained.

Steps:

• For the papas:.
• Assemble lettuce leaves on a nice plate or platter.
• Lay potato slices on top, trying to keep the round discs intact.
• For the salsa Huancaina:.
• In a blender container or food processor, place cheese, garlic, evaporated milk and aji paste, blend until smooth.
• Add 2 yolks of the hard boiled eggs, and a few water crackers.
• While blender is running, drizzle in 1 T of oil.
• Check consistency.
• It should be about the consistency of thin cake batter.
• If it needs more thickening, add more crackers and oil.
• Check seasoning, if you are using feta cheese, it might not need salt, you can also add a bit more aji if you like it spicy.
• To serve, pour sauce over potatoes and lettuce.
• Garnish with remaining 2 hard boiled eggs, cut in wedges and black olives.

Steps:

• Place boiled eggs, potatoes and onions on a serving dish.
• Blend together in a blender the cream cheese, aji or yellow pepper, garlic, crackers, oil, milk, salt and pepper for 5 minutes until you get a thick mixture.
• It should be just thick enough to cover the potatoes.
• If the cheese sauce is watery, add half a boiled potato to thicken the sauce a little.
• Remove from the blender and pour over the potatoes and eggs.
• Top with black olives and lettuce for decoration.

Steps:

• Make sauce:
• Pulse together sauce ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
• Fry yuca:
• If using fresh yuca, trim ends and cut crosswise into 3-inch pieces, then peel, removing waxy brown skin and pinkish layer underneath.
• Cover yuca (fresh or frozen) with cold salted water by 1 inch in a 4-quart pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until yuca is tender when pierced with a wooden skewer, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to several layers of paper towels to drain, then cool 5 minutes. Cut yuca lengthwise into 1/8-inch-wide wedges, discarding thin woody core. (If there are pieces that have white parts to them, return them to barely simmering water and simmer until almost translucent.)
• Heat about 1 1/2 inches oil in a 4- to 5-quart heavy pot over moderate heat until it registers 360°F on thermometer.
• Fry yuca in 3 batches, turning occasionally, until golden, 3 to 5 minutes per batch. Transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. (Return oil to 360°F between batches.) Sprinkle fries with salt and serve with cheese sauce.

Steps:

• Start making making the Green Sauce. Combine lettuce, mayonnaise, lime juice, cilantro, peppers, garlic, and salt in a blender. Blend until smooth. Put into a serving dish.
• Next, we fry the yucca. Peel the yucca with a knife and throw away the hard skin. Cut the flesh into 1/2 inch thin strips about 4 inches long. Heat a large iron skillet or nonstick frying pan to medium high heat with about half your oil. I like grape seed oil because it gives a nice crispness to the yucca and it's healthy. Reserve the remaining oil for the 2nd half of your yucca. Organize the yucca in the frying pan into a single layer. fry half the yucca until light golden brown and then flip it over to fry on the other side. Remove when it's golden brown on both sides and place onto a paper towel to drain. Cook the 2nd batch the same way.
• Serve the yucca on a plate, and give each person a small bowl or cup of the green sauce for them to dip their yucca into.