Fried Yuccas (cassava) With Huancaina Sauce

Total Time: 13 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 -2 yucca root (cassava)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• salt
• 7 fresh yellow aji limo chiles, seeded (you may add more or less depending on how spicy you like it)
• 10 1/2 ounces fresh farmer cheese (ricotta or feta (regular or non-fat)
• vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup milk (non-fat may be used)
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 pinch pepper

Recipe

• 1 peel and rinse yuccas.
• 2 cut in 2 or 3 pieces depending on the size.
• 3 cook yuccas in salted water until soft and tender when pierced with a fork. drain and cool.
• 4 cut yuccas in ½ x 2 inches (1.5 x5 cm).
• 5 heat oil in a skillet and fry yuccas until golden. season.
• 6 drain fat in paper towel.
• 7 yucca sticks can be frozen until ready to use.
• 8 remove from freezer and place immediately in hot oil until golden and crispy.
• 9 serve with huancaína sauce as an appetizer.
• 10 huancaína sauce:.
• 11 place ají in a blender.
• 12 pour milk and blend.
• 13 sauté onion with garlic in oil until cooked.
• 14 add this mixture to blender together with the cheese.
• 15 while blending add oil until a creamy sauce is obtained.