Pan de Yuca [Video+Recipe] Easy Yuca Bread

Panecicos (Cassava and Pork Crackling Rolls).

Pan de Yuca [Video+Recipe] Easy Yuca Bread

Inspired by the traditional Dominican yuca bread recipe, these are easier to make, more attractive, and great to serve as picadera (party food).

Course Lunch

Cuisine Dominican

Keyword hot pan de yuca, yuca, yuca bread, yuca bread recipe gluten free

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 40

Total Time 1

Servings (aprox)

Calories 313kcal

Author Clara Gonzalez

Ingredients

1½ pound yuca (cassava) [0.7 kg] (cassava), peeled and washed
1 cup chicken broth unsalted
3 tablespoons salted butter
1 tablespoon aniseed
1 teaspoon salt
1 pound pork cracklings (chicharrones)
vegetable oil to rub on your hands and grease baking tray

Instructions

1. Grating yuca

Grate using the least coarse side of the grater, or using the grater attachment of your food processor (which I did).
Place the grated cassava on a clean cotton cloth and squeeze as much liquid as you can. Catch the liquid into another container. When you have finished straining the cassava, measure the amount of liquid that you extracted

2. Measuring broth

Measure that same amount of chicken broth (I used 1 cup of broth, the amount may vary depending on the cassava you use). You may discard the liquid extracted from the cassava.

3. Mixing dough

Add the cracklings to the cassava mixture and mix well.
Mix broth, with salt to taste. Add butter and aniseed. Combine with the yuca and mix well.

4. Cooking dough

Place the mixture in a large non-stick pan and heat over low heat. Cook stirring constantly, turning the mixture at the bottom until it turns into a darker, more translucent color (see the picture of mixture halfway through the process).
Once it is completely cooked, and is sticky and translucent, remove it from the heat and place it into another container (to stop the cooking process). Let it cool down to room temperature.

5. Making the buns

Rub oil on your hands and place ¼ cup of mixture on your hand. Form balls with it and place it on an oiled baking tray or silpat.

6. Baking

Bake in preheated oven to 400 ºF [200ºC] until the top turns a light golden color (15-20 minutes).
Remove from the heat, serve warm.

Video

Notes

While the bread "rises" a bit in the oven, there is no real leavening, just the heated gas (steam) trapped inside pushing out. The result is a more attractive, lighter "bread" than the traditional.

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