Pan de yuca is basic bread to make with only a few basic ingredients; flour, eggs, butter and baking powder. A simple mix of wet and dry ingredients and no fermentation, just shape and bake. This is my second time making it. There's another version I want to try...
Having eaten a "torta de yuca," I decided to find out about the origins of this root. Looking online, I found that yuca is actually "cassava." More, cassava is the third highest carbohydrate source in the tropics. And because the first European sailors who settled...
Pan de Yuca is a gluten-free, levain-free South American bread made with baking powder and lots of cheese. Traditional to Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, it does make use of tapioca or yuca starch. Here is a batch I made, along with a recipe.
When it's as cold and windy as this weekend, it's time for some comfort food. Sure, eggs, bacon, and pancakes are fine. But why not indulge in a griddled starchy tropical tuber filled with mozzarella and scallions instead? Yuca, manioc, cassava... the funny waxed and...
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