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Carimañolas I

Fried yuca dumplings filled 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 I

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

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

  2. Grind the boiled yuca with a fine blade in a grinder and knead with salt.

Make the filling

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

  2. Brown the seasoned meat in a very small amount of hot oil and add tomato paste.

  3. Simmer the mixture until quite dry.

Form and fry

  1. Form the dough into balls, flatten them in the palm of the hand, and fill with stuffing, forming into an oval shape. Pinch the ends to close.

  2. Fry the filled yuca dumplings in very hot oil until golden.

  3. Fry one or two at a time only.

Freeze and fry later

  1. If you want to freeze the carimañolas, dust them with a little flour after they are formed and place them on a cookie sheet in the freezer until firm.

  2. Transfer the frozen carimañolas to sealed ziplock bags.

  3. To fry, take them from the freezer to hot oil one at a time, as they may fall apart.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

134Calories
4 gProtein
0 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 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
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.

Explore the science

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. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + clovetop 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 fries to a crisp golden shell.
Ground meat
Provides the savory filling that the dough encloses.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and body to the filling as it cooks down.
Tomato paste
Adds concentrated acidity and savory depth, and helps the filling brown.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, savory meat filling.

The step that matters

Simmer the filling until quite dry. A wet filling releases moisture inside the dough, which can make the dumplings soggy or burst during frying. Cooking it down until dry keeps the filling stable and the shell crisp.

Swap the clove

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, parsley, onion, tomato, garlic, 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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