Yuccas A La Huancaina - Cassava With Huancaina Sauce
From adacowan 17 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 46
One of my absolute favorite appetizers! This sauce can also be served as an appetizer over boiled and sliced potatoes or as a salad dressing.
Ingredients
- 1 or 2 yuccas (cassava) shopping list
- vegetable oil shopping list
- salt shopping list
- Huancaína Sauce: shopping list
- 7 Fresh yellow aji (chili), seeded and deveined shopping list
- 10 oz. Fresh Ricotta or feta cheese shopping list
- vegetable oil shopping list
- 2/3 C. milk shopping list
- 1 small onion, chopped shopping list
- 1 garlic clove, crushed shopping list
- salt & pepper to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Peel and rinse yuccas.
- 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 yuccas in ½ " x 2" sections.
- Heat oil in a skillet and fry yuccas until golden.
- Season.
- Drain fat in paper towel.
- Yucca sticks may 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.
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I've had that Peruvian spicy sauce before. It's so good! Thank you for the recipe.
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Do you have a chicke La Bresa Recipe ,I like this appetizer very much also what is the green sauce they serve at the table its so spicy I love it.-Vernalisa
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