Yucca Fritters with Cheese

This recipe was made with my sister who was visiting here in El Tigre - Anzoátegui State for the Christmas festivities and we did not miss the opportunity to make these traditional fritters as we ate them in our land and of course accompanied by a rich guasacaca. Yearning our culture but appreciating to enjoy them as a family. You can also vary the recipe including ground beef or chicken as a filling. This recipe yields to make 30 Fritters.

First of all, you should peel and cook the yucca until it is soft, then let it rest until it is fresh and we can manipulate it. Then, with the help of a potato mill crushes the yucca, the idea is to facilitate the kneading.

Start kneading and so that our compact dough added butter and knead until it is fully compacted and manipulated, as seen in the photographs.Then as is enough mass, the division into two parts (to work more easily).

We grab a portion of dough to make our donut, we give it the round shape and then with the fingers make like a kind of hole for the dough so that a cavity is formed where the cheese can be added and then it can be attached to the sides little by little to close it, we turn the whole fritter to perfect the shape and we will have them ready to fry.

In a pan with plenty of hot oil, add the fritters to fry on both sides.