Best Yuca Recipe - How to Cook Cassava Root
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- Check out this easy yuca recipe. Yuca is a popular root that makes a nice change from your average potato dish. Me and CG have been cooking up yuca with garlic and onion for years, inspired by our favorite Cuban restaurants in Florida. The combo of yuca, garlic, onion, and cumin will knock your socks off, so check out the video and give this yuca recipe a try.
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Ingredients for this Cuban-Inspired Yuca Recipe
YUCA (about 1 lb.)
1 Lg ONION (diced)
5-10 cloves GARLIC (finely chopped)
OIL for sauteing the onion and garlic
RED PEPPER FLAKES to taste
2-3 Tbsp CUMIN
½ cup OLIVE OIL
juice of 1 LEMON and zest
SALT to taste
CUMIN SEEDS (1 tsp, optional)
…I’ve got lots of yuca, so in the video I’m doubling this recipe
How To Cook Yuca Recipe
Using a sharp knife, cut the yuca into manageable sizes and carefully cut away the outer skin of the yuca root. The skin is inedible and should be discarded.
Place yuca pieces into a pot of water and bring to a boil. Yuca should never be eaten uncooked.
Reduce heat and simmer 15-20 minutes or until yuca root can be pierced easily with a fork. Do not overcook!
Yuca pieces should not be mushy. Drain yuca and cool with water.
Remove fibrous stem from center of root and cut into 1 inch chunks.
Heat oil in a skillet.
Add garlic and onion and let simmer for a several minutes.
Add red pepper flakes, cumin, and salt to taste.
Add yuca.
Mix and allow all to simmer for 5 minutes. Give the yuca an occasional stir. Add a bit of water if needed, but not too much.
Remove from heat and add lemon juice and zest.
And that's it!
Yucca is an excellent substitute for potato. It goes great with any meat entree, and makes a great vegetarian meal when paired with stuffed peppers and a crisp green salad.
Give this yuca recipe a try and let me know what you think, and bon appetit!
And if you wanna try out the stuffed peppers with yuca, check out this jalapeno poppers recipe as well
• Kick Ass Jalapeno Poppers
Thanks for checking the yuca recipe and video out. If you liked it, share it with your friends and family. I appreciate it!
--Chef Buck
Cassava we enjoy with slighty salted fresh coconut with "onion sambol", put in the mortar onions 🌰 chilli flakes or fresh/dried whole chillies 🌶 as you wish with salt & lime drops now chop chop chop until it's well blended we also add dried fish 🐟 called "malidifish", this is very famous in Maldives 🇲🇻, check the flavour as u wish ... mmmm... sure you gonna adore it.. "Lunu miris or Katte sambol", we call it in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ♥
Thank you for explaining and demonstrating the best method for removal of the interior stem. Others do not.
Dug a huge cassava tuber out of my garden yesterday, and going to try your recipe tonight. First time Ive ever grown cassava. Looking forward to it. Thankyou.
Salt, pepper, onions, sautee it with some ham or bacon and top with some scallions! Delish
L Sounds delicious, the way you would cook it! 👍👍
that's not a stem ,hahaha
NO PORK!
Don't eat pork make some bacalao,❤💪
we do eat cassava raw with coconut or with salt lemon juice and powdered pepper in my country sometimes we fry, boil or cooked with coconut juice. With coconut you can use salt or sugar and vanilla essences or with cardamom for good aroma. We use leaves as vegetable and it sticks as fire for cooking
cassava and coconut sounds so tasty!
Super Duper looking recipe! I'm cooking my first ever cassava root today and it will by your recipe!
I love yuca!! I will be cooking this real soon.
I just harvested my first yucca tree yesterday and I can not even believe how much there was!!
I gave half of my harvest away because there was no way I’d ever eat it all.
Anyway, very excited mine is boiling right now. My first time
Looks good!!! I’m trying it this weekend. Thanks for sharing!
Try to cook with coconut milk. Just boil the cassava and fresh coconut milk and add salt. Very tasty🤗😋😚
I'll try that.
And add some urine from a human female just a little sprinkle .
I'm going to have to do this tonight!
Thx I want to try it but not know how to use
Do I need to boil in water before coconut milk??? Or straight boil in coconut milk?
Cassava is underrated, it’s the most delicious yummiest root crop and u can eat it even if just boiled it ,or substitute for ur rice.
I dont see the appeal noticing you are taking a risk by eating it all the time.
Whats the risk?
@@greg3498 maybe it's about the high calorie content of yuca and some anti nutrient.....it contains good fiber for gut but by processing it lessen the fiber....by heat vit c lessen already .minerals very minimal so its says when I read some nutritional value of yuca.But cooking it different way as vegetable or dessert the taste will be 👍.
Yes,it's so delicious.We boil,fry and make cakes out of cassava in Jamaica.One of my favourite root crops for sure.
better than french fries
In Brazil is known as aipim, macaxeira, mandioca ... a delight!
Man after my own heart: lots of onions, garlic and cumin. Why didn't I think of that? Gonna try this next time as well as the suggestion to cook it in coconut milk. Great job!
Thank you for making this video so easy fun to understand.....I am giving a try to cook this now
I'll have to do this! People say when you try something new that you add years to your life! Thanks to you both!
I hope that's true :^)
Feel like I can smell that... Delicious 👌
Before boiling the Yuca take a cleaver, hack open down the middle and remove the stem, the trace amount of cyanide gives the cassava root a stringint flavor if left intact before boiling
What , Cyanide, Doesn't that get rid of worms??
Appreciate the video . But that's not the way to peel it .make a line with knife and peel it off with hand . The way u do , u r removing the nice n tastiest our part of the yuca. Appreciate though ..found this video while searching how can I make an easy breakfast .
Thanks Praveen ,we'll said !
Praveen Sujayakumar
Jean Elvis ABOH hh
Praveen Sujayakumar agree you don't peel them like that, the skin comes out easily with your hand. Also I may add that its best to cut the pieces in half and take the stem off (it comes out easily) before cooking. Also nice to fry when they are soft. Delicious with just a simple onion, garlic tomato sauce seasoned with herbs added once they have been boiled.
@@karimeb4980 Now that sounds very tasty.
I cut it into pieces and peel as you do. Then, I cut into fries, rinse, steam, then salt and oil it and broil it in the toaster oven.
I am Nigerian and I enjoyed watching this video, we use cassava in different ways except this one, so today I tried this method and added some Nigerian spice and fish, oh my God it was unbelievably delicious, this is my new favorite food and I can't wait for my friends to try it out. Thanks Thanks!!!
orimolade ann well done sis
OA,
Did you cook the fish separately? I'm from Kenya and the good thing about this recipe is that you can use whatever spices you want. I think a major part of using this recipe is knowing how long you need to boil the yuca. I just cooked this recipe for the first time today (very early in the morning). So I'll get to taste it during lunch or dinner (depending on when I get time). That's when I'll really know how it works for me. I'm going to be eating the yuca with a beans, peas, potato and beef stew which I cooked separately. Normally, I would eat this stew with ugali, an East African maize meal staple (if you google "ugali" there are numerous links that show you how to cook it). Ugali is a starch that is eaten with all kinds of dishes in Kenya and neighboring countries. If this yuca recipe works I'll be really excited for I'll have an alternate way of eating so many dishes that I cook.
Recipe please 😁
I’m American born Haitian and I never appreciated this vegetable until I became a full blown adult. It sits well and is a great alternative for Rice.. I’m now growing some in my backyard 😊
OMG, when you responded to the "do a little dance" comment with "then I'd have to make a little love and get down tonight...sounds like a lotta work to me", I almost choked on my tea. You are really entertaining!
yeah...I was dating myself there
@@ChefBuckRecipes 🤣
Hahahha ikr
I loved that comment 😂😂
That’s from a song from KC and the sunshine band called get down tonight
Yucca con mojo is one of my favorite Cuban foods. None of that extra spice, just garlic and salt
The amount of that cumin can kill a whole city with the smell 😲🤭
Cumin can smell/taste really good until someone ruins the mood and mentions something else it smells like *looks at my aunt*
Your pan is overloaded. I would finish in oven instead. 375F 15min or 1/4 of the amount.
Also, less cumin for sure. Thank for the video.
Awesome! thank you Chef Buck! ;D
Wow, that looks delicious! Can I use frozen yuca to make this too?
I grew up eating boiling yucca, after removing it from the water it was added nice amount of roasted onion , with either cheese, eggs , salami, jam, cod fish, meat, etc,. Also we peel it very differently; we add salt to the boiling water , so when it is tender does not need more salt.
love you guys. I have been watching your videos for awhile now. I would love to see your version of how you cook Jicama or Kohlrabi. Take care Chef Buck
kohlrabi...I've never bought one--don't think I've ever had it...I'll keep my eye out for it and give it a try. We often use jicama raw in salads as a side for fish or when we're on a vegetarian streak...we often make a variation of this salad (lately I've been using raw zucchini in salads) th-cam.com/video/4JvtqzxzqPU/w-d-xo.html
maybe I'll buy a kohlrabi and give that a go...we like to bake root veggies for a faux french fry fix, too
Give the Kohlrabi a shot Buck they are very good for you...Lots of vitamins and minerals
I've been eating salmon fillets mostly like this lately th-cam.com/video/D2Z5KlT7pwM/w-d-xo.html
You can cook with coconuts milk , brown sugar and pandan leaf .
So yummy 😋
sounds yummy!
Helvie Iskandar
That sounds like it would be a great tasting dessert!
blanche richards we can make yuka cake too .
I have many recipes Yuka .
I enjoyed your video on yuca or cassava or tapioca as it is called in the South Pacific. I'm from Fiji and it is a staple food consumed daily. It is mostly boiled like you did and eaten with vegetables or meat and fish. It can be cooked in an earth oven, fried as some viewers mentioned, with spices like potato wedges or curried as is done in our Indian community. It can also be grated and cooked then made into a desert with coconut milk or it can be grated and Cooke as porridge with milk added or coconut milk. What we do here is put a stone in a wood fire and when it is re
Can you please add the missing ending to your sentence? And you do consume this daily?
The way he peeled cassava 😀😀😀😀😀😀 lol. It was like sugarcane
I love how you don't give an over the top and lengthy intro, or over explain each step as I have seen in other videos. This is awesome! Straight to the point and easy to follow. Thanks!
i’m expert at feeling cassava skin, and it’s really fun doing it if u know the secret.
I just clicked because I wanted to confirm I was pronouncing Yuca correctly. But, I couldn't stop watching video it was so interesting and moved along fast enough for my short attention span. HA!
...peeps this is where tapioca pudding comes from.
Yellow Tapioca are my favorite
some people eat inner skin of cassava here, not the brown outer one. slice small and cook with oil and onion etc, sometimes with coconout milk. it's good
I am Montagnard indigenous Central highland Vietnam, I boiled them until it cook I just eat plan it’s still tasty .
Omigosh you guys!!! I went to the food bank today and they had a huge stock of Yuca (what the heck is Yuca???) lol so I got 3 of them, came home, found this channel and I just make this recipe, and used the lemon zest I ALSO got there today, YAY and it is so delish!!! Oh goodness gracious it is so good!! Lots of sauteed garlic, onion and fennel, and the lemon zest and pepper flakes it is totally GOURMET.
*Thank you Chef Buck and CG for this super simple and super delish recipe. And of course...the instructions on prepping the Yuca!!* Liked and subbed!! :D
We make dumpling with it and brown stew pork
Where was this food bank in the usa
Thanks for the video now I'm hungry. I'm from the island of Tonga and peel n boil til tender pour remaining water out of the pot..pour coconut cream over the Manioke (cassava) bring to boil...done. enjoy it with a nice roast pig, fish etc. or best yet BB-Q teriyaki chicken
I just bought some today. Thank you for this I will subscribe. Hope everyone having a blessed day and many more!!!💯🥰☺️
He is wasting it by peeling the skin so😂all you have to do is mark the skin and the whole shell comes of that cassava is stringy bad moon
“Boil that Yuca, boil that Yuca”
I love these! Have you ever tried them being gently boiled in smaller chunks in coconut milk with water, pinch of salt, a little coconut sugar (or ur choice of sweetener)& a bit of cinnamon? These are so versatile. Yummy.
Ooooh, Thanks I'm going to try that!
That sounds delicious thank you
What is it with Americans and sugar. Must you add that toxin to everything in your diet?
It's a lot like a potato, do you add sugar to your potatoes?
Absolutely delicious!! 1st time I had it in my life. I always seen this veg in the market I was wondering what to do with it.
Hi there! i did not know that you can fried it, here in south africa we just peel it and cut into pieces and put into the pot with water and salt and boiled it after cooked we dish,thanks for the receip.God bless you for sharing with us.
I dont know what kind of cumin you are using here but the one I know is superstrong and dont need but a pinch or two for that dish. I love cooking and I know cumin.
memo memo YOU ARR RIGHT! CUMMIN IS VERY STRONG.JUST A TINY PINCH AT A TIME.I COULDNT BELIEVE HOW MUCH HE PUT IN! MAYBE. ITS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
@dripping water The odor alone would have knocked me out!
memo memo when I cook and put cumin I only use about 3 or 4 cumin seeds lmao because I know how strong it is idk but I know that yuca didn’t taste good at all with all that cumin 😫😫
@@yesiiii2389 3 to 4 you're a big whimp
Look 👀 yamm I want try it
Come on! We do not peel cassava, it's skinned, like how you'd skin plantains.
Try making fries with them , Soooooooo Gooood.
love yuca fries!
Chef Buck, and with a spicy peanut sauce on the side.
Very good
@@rickyachin that's sound yummy
nice dish...what kind of fry pan do you use? i see the onion,the garlic do not stick to the pan...i have a non stick pan ,after 5 months to use is not good anymore ,everything stick in the pan.
Tip: dont put too much water. Just put enough to cook it. You dont want the flavor and vitamin to the water
My husband was making a pasta dish the other day, and he told me he put in a Chef Buck amount of garlic! We love you and CG. Thanks for the videos!
if I make a dish and don't use a whole bulb of garlic, it feels weird :^)
Guy u must come to Africa to learn how to handle the so called yuca 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Hahaha yeah bro
Thats not the right way to remove the skin. Hahaha. Its called "ubi kayu" "cassila in murut language"
I love how easy he explains thing's! Best of all, NO MEASURING!!!❤ YAY!
Basically, this is a potatoes & onion dish. Nevertheless, if you'd never eaten the Yucca or Cassava plant, you should try it!
I sort of like chewing on that stem thing.... love this food.
Thank you Buck for showing how to cook yuca/cassava. I bought a root of yuca today for the first time, and will try to see how it goes!
I cooked my first cassava tonight, lovely 🏴
But you’re peeling it all wrong! Just score and peel, much faster and easier :) thanks for the video!
is that we called cassava.
that yummy if u make cassava. cake. with coconut
I may have to try this 🤔
That lady in the peanut gallery is funny!
Actually a bit annoying but ok.
I used to eat this in Brazil. it's delicious!
So did you quit eating it?
I am watching this as I am eating some, only boiled in salt water!! But will try your recipe!! This root is sooooo yum!!! And so filling..
I am eating this on the side with pan fried salmon and kale cooked in butter!!! So happy right now!!!
imo steaming it works better than boiling it...you could peal it so you don't waste any...its very easy to peal...
Thanks 🙏 😊
Hi, I’m from Brazil and I’ve been eating this since I was a kid. Love your video ❤ I also recommend boiling it and adding some butter, salt and pepper, or, after boiling just deep fry it like french fries , it’s delicious!
Man you don't even know how to peel the cassava, you're wasting the cassava .
We called it Tapioca or Casava.
Wooow😱😱😱😱!!!! This looks 😋 delicious definitely would try this recipe tomorrow. .. Thank you so much for sharing 👍👍👍👍👍
Looks great! And so does your kitchen. I love trying out new root veggies from the grocery and nearly always find a Caribbean recipe for em. Can't wait to try yours soon. Thanks for making your recipe vegan too!
In srilankan cooking we boil with peeled butter squash and add fried onions ,garlic ,salt and red Chile flakes and coconut milk. Its yummy 🤤
Just cooked casava today.
In Malaysia casava is called tapioca..
Love from Malaysia😍
in my home province antique, philippines we call it patioca. .in other native dialects it is called balinghoy or kamoteng kahoy. .
I definitely try that out , looks yummy 😋
Garlic and lime juice
@vagabond brain I learned how to prepare yuca from a Cuban cook. She topped hers with a mixture of cilantro, garlic and lime juice and served it with a pork roast. I’ve been making it for years the same way. Love it!
never tried it this way Chef. Thanks for sharing. In Malaysia we boil it and eat with coconut sambal !! Yumm
In Brazil-Portugal, we called it "Mandioca" (Or "Aipim" for a similar root)
Easy simple dessert just dip the boiled cassava with fresh grated coconut mixed with brown or white sugar 😋
You make it very similar to me but I don't add onions and not pepper. I add only garlic, cumin and curry. Also I cut the yuca in "french fries" shape to fry it. And I love how tasty it is with the garlic, cumin and curry (and salt obviously too don't forget salt).
Looks yummy, you can make yuca balls and dip in some chutney. Love this recipe😇
That is the incorrect way to peel the yuca ! Ask a HISPANIC to show you how !
LMAO
...or a Kenyan
Let him do his thing. If you dont like it, dont watch it.
@@noragarcia7917
I'm glad she commented.
They too busy running 🏃 from trump.
I'm African, Cmr🇨🇲 we love anything that's swallowable! I can't help but think the cassava would have wished to be cooked as fufu for some 3 fingers grabling and swallowing! 🤣
Need strong back and muscle to make fufu!
@@grovermartin6874 for real
Where can I buy cassava from please? Any safe website?
YOU CAN BUY CASSAVA(YUCA) IN ANY GROCERY STORE WITH HISPANIC AND ASIAN NEIGHBORHOODS NEARBY.OR ASK AN ASIAN OR HISPANIC PERSON. WHERE THEY SHOP.
Stop and Shop, Whole foods, Asian markets, Hispanic markets, etc.
You should buy a cleaver to cut hard items. If you lived next door, I'd give you one of the 4 cleavers I own. I rarely use a "chef's" knife, since it can't do anything better than a cleaver, except slice long noodles.
Would be a lot better without the peanut gallery popping off.
Dude I died when he put all the cummin .. I only use a pinch 🤚... and yuka I supposed to boil till soft then you ,saute onions bay leaf in oilve oil ... take that and pour it ontop of the yuka and serve since I was little girl we never cut open the yuka and take out the stem we just ate around it ... thanks for the video tho . Your awesome for trying and I'm sure it was yummy
The best way to peel is slit along one side and the skin will peel easily with knife or fingers.
a tip is to eat this with barbecue
Diobelso Teodoro OPO-RO That is so very true
GOOD IDEA!!
Well, with all the positive comments, I am definitely going to try yucca. I'll start a simplier dish. Hold the cumin til later. I so appreciate your simplified form of cooking in a modest kitchen. You prove we can prepare, cook, eat in modest surroundings. You are teaching an old dog new tricks. I dont have a CG, but I'll manage. A gal at church just lost lots of weight and recommended yucca, aloe and simple ancient foods she is using. Our forefathers were never fat. I'm looking forward to this new adventure in my old 79 year old body. Again, thanks for your commen sense basic recipes. Looks like fun!
Very helpful video - many thanks! I'm off to cook some cassava
Damn, that looks so delicious~!
So you got Flavor Flav on the cam corder!
hey Chef Buck, In our place its called TAPIOCA
'm frm Kerala, known as 'Gods Own Country' (a small state f INDIA)
tt luks pretty gudd.. yummy !! variety dish frm ours..
What about cyanide?
Thank you for sharing ^^ I made this and It tasted good to me.
There is a much easier way to peel the cassava.
Gina Welds Hulse what is it?
Can't wait to try this! I so appreciate the variety of recipes on your channel Chef Buck and Camera Girl!
we love to shop for groceries at international markets, so we're always running into new things to try
I am going to try this savoury dish - yummy! Over here in Malaysia, we make a sweet cake with coconut milk, sugar, steamed and baked to brown it. During WW2, it was a staple food for the people when food was scarce. Just boiled and eaten.
I have never tried it, I've never even seen it in a store, it looks delicious though!
I'm surprised how many places have fresh yuca...sometimes if you can't find it in the fesh produce, you can find yuca already cut and peeled in the frozen foods section (look in the International foods frozen area with the egg rolls and tamales)...I used to always buy frozen yuca when I lived in North Florida, 'cause it was the best price where I shopped
You get a pass in my Dominican household