Cassava is a tropical food that is becoming more and more diversified, so if you have just discovered it and want to prepare the best recipes with cassava, we have many proposals for you.
Among many benefits for our health, cassava has slow absorption carbohydrates although it is very easily digested, which makes it especially recommended for the diet of athletes and people who experience great physical and mental exhaustion. In addition, it has an impressive satiating power, ideal for diets.
So if you dare to cook yucca, we recommend you start with an easy recipe that the whole family will like, some homemade croquettes! We will make these stuffed yucca croquettes with cooked ham, but the filling is your choice so you can also make them with cheese or whatever you like the most.
Ingredients to make stuffed yucca croquettes:
- 2 kilograms of Yucca
- ½ kilogram of cooked ham
- ¼ cup of milk (60 milliliters)
- 1 egg white
- 1 cup of wheat flour (140 grams)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 1 pinch of salt
- Oil for frying
How to make stuffed yucca croquettes:
Gather all the ingredients on your kitchen table before you start cooking, if we have everything measured and weighed, the preparation of the recipe will be much faster.
Keep in mind that the filling of these yucca croquettes is to taste, you can make them with cheese, chicken or ground meat.
To cook the yucca, remove the skin, chop and boil in plenty of salted water for about 20 minutes or until you can check that it is tender. Then, wring out and remove the central strand, you will find it easily because it is a fairly thick thread.
Next, make a puree by mashing the cooked cassava together with the milk, the egg white and the finely chopped parsley. This will be the dough for our yucca croquettes, so add an extra point of salt if you consider it necessary.
To form the croquettes we will follow the same process as in the elaboration of the banana and cheese croquettes. We take small portions of dough, make a hole and place the ham filling in the center, to then flatten, close and give it the typical croquette shape, round or elongated.
The ham must be finely sliced and remember that you can change the filling to your liking.
Tip: So that all the croquettes are the same size you can use an ice cream scoop to calculate the portions.
Place the wheat flour on a plate and cover the croquettes, one by one, to remove moisture and make a kind of batter. Then you can fry them in abundant oil until they are well browned on all sides. Reserve on a kitchen napkin to remove excess oil. You can serve the stuffed yucca croquettes for breakfast, dinner or even as an appetizer at a party or meeting with friends, they are great!
