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Carimañolas

Yuca fritters stuffed with seasoned ground meat.

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Carimañolas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the yuca

  1. Boil the yuca with salt but do not allow it to become too soft.

  2. Grind the yuca and knead it with salt.

Make the stuffing

  1. Season the ground meat with salt, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, capers, onion, sugar, scallion, and parsley.

  2. Fry the seasoned meat in hot oil until browned.

  3. Add the tomato paste and other ingredients to the browned meat.

  4. Cook the filling on low heat until soft.

Fill and fry

  1. Form balls and fill each with the stuffing, shaping them into oval shapes.

  2. Fry the filled yuca balls in very hot oil.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

134Calories
4 gProtein
0 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Stuffingnot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Yuca
Forms the starchy dough that wraps the filling and turns crisp when fried.
Ground meat
Provides the savory filling that gives the fried dough its main flavor and body.
Tomato paste
Adds concentrated acidity and savory depth to the browned meat filling.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and moisture to the cooked filling.

The step that matters

Fry the filled yuca balls in very hot oil.. Very hot oil sears the outside quickly so the dough crisps and browns before it absorbs excess oil and turns greasy. Oil that is too cool makes the shapes soak up fat and lose their structure.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, onion, garlic, parsley, tomato, sauce, sugar):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, onion, garlic, parsley, tomato, sauce, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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