Carimañola with Ground Beef

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Today I want to entice you with a delicious recipe that, without a doubt, if you share with your guests they will want to repeat without thinking twice. The Carimañola, also known as caribañola or caramañola, is a very traditional fried food in the Caribbean region of Colombia

Prep Time20

Cook Time20

Total Time40

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: Colombian

Keyword: carimañola

Servings:

Calories: 210kcal

Author: Lorena Rodríguez

Ingredients

1000 g of peeled yucca cut into pieces and without veins.
Salt
6 cups of water
Enough vegetable oil for frying
For the filling
¼ of a finely chopped bell pepper
1 crushed garlic clove
½ finely chopped onion
250 g of ground beef
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
Salt pepper, and cumin to taste

Instructions

Place a large pot over high heat, add the water, yucca, and salt. Cook for about 25 minutes or until the yucca is soft.
Drain the yucca and in a bowl start mashing it with a fork or a puree masher, knead it quite a bit until it has a smooth texture, set the dough aside.
Put a frying pan over medium heat and add the tablespoon of oil, the crushed garlic, the onion, and the bell pepper. Cook for two minutes stirring constantly.
Add the ground beef and cook for 7 minutes without stopping stirring, so that the ingredients are integrated. Remove from heat and let cool.
Take the yucca dough and make a fist-sized ball, with the help of a finger make a hole in the center (like making a canoe).
Add 1 tablespoon of beef filling and gently close it forming an oval.
Bring each carimañola to a pan with hot oil and fry for about 3 minutes on each side or until they are golden.
Remove each carimañola and drain on kitchen paper.
Serve and eat them hot, accompanied by tomato sauce, sweet chili, or costeño sour cream.

Notes

Although traditionally the carimañola is fried, you can also bake it for about 30 minutes at 190°C.

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