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Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.
Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. [2] Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers.
Muchines de yuca are a typical dish from Ecuador. Its main component is cassava, a tuber with high energy properties, which grows in the coastal region of Ecuador. Although it is widely present in the coastal region, it is very popular in Ambato, where it is consumed as part of breakfast.
At the recently opened A Taco Affair, a signature side is the yuca stack, offered as both a single portion ($7.50) and a shareable platter ($15). At $7.50, this side might seem more like a splurge ...
Tapioca starch. Tapioca (/ ˌ t æ p i ˈ oʊ k ə /; Portuguese: [tapiˈɔkɐ]) is a starch extracted from the tubers of the cassava plant (Manihot esculenta, also known as manioc), a species native to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, [1] but which has now spread throughout South America.
Rellenos de yuca are fitters made with boiled mashed cassava, milk, eggs, cornstarch, butter, and filled with meat, cheese, seafood, or vegetable and fried. Pastelillos de yuca are basically empanadas made with tapioca, milk, butter or lard, annatto, eggs, vinegar or vodka. Cassava is also used in sweets.
Taíno (Arawak) women preparing casabe (cassava bread) in 1565— grinding cassava/yuca roots into paste with a metate and mano, shaping the bread, and cooking it on a fire-heated burén. Casabe (cassava bread) preparation in 1791— with stone mortar and pestles, wooden frame guayo, matapi on a tree and burén. Fried bammy in Jamaica
Pasteles de yuca [3] is one of many recipes in Puerto Rico that are popular around the island and in Latin America. The masa is made with cassava , other root vegetables, plantains, and squash. The recipe calls for cassava to replace the green bananas of the traditional pasteles de masa .