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I have become a chulito freak. I can not get enough of them while I am in the DR. They are addictive.

I have a great recipe from Aunt Clara?s Kitchen but I am having a difficult time finding prepared ground cassava. Any suggestions?

Charlie
 

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chuckuindy said:
I have become a chulito freak. I can not get enough of them while I am in the DR. They are addictive.

I have a great recipe from Aunt Clara’s Kitchen but I am having a difficult time finding prepared ground cassava. Any suggestions?

Charlie
Yes they are. I remember a few years back when all I wanted to eat was those darn "chulitos", as if I was pregnant. Morning, afternoon and night, I needed to have my "fix" of "chulitos". They were my "drugs" of choice, :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: .
 

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Try using "tapioca powder/flour".

Apparently it's the same stuff by a "North American" name.
I use it to prepare some of the vegan stuff for the special cardiac diet my cardiologist has me eating.

:knockedou
 
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Yummy

Please excuse the interuption, but would somebody tell me what "Chulito's" are. Everyone rants and raves about them. They must be good. I really must try them when I return to the DR :cheeky:
 

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Thank you, they certainly look delicious. must try them when I am in DR in October
 

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MommC said:
Apparently it's the same stuff by a "North American" name.
:knockedou
It will be close, but, no cigar. Grated yucca has a different 'texture'. That's what makes chulitos so good... plus the spicy meat.

Ah, where is Do?a Dinorah, the owner of my childhood neighborhood fritura now? :disappoin


chuckuindy , you don't need to buy grated yucca, do as everybody does, buy yucca and a grater.
 

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Guess I should have checked out chulitos before I posted!

Pib said:
It will be close, but, no cigar. Grated yucca has a different 'texture'. That's what makes chulitos so good... plus the spicy meat.

Ah, where is Do?a Dinorah, the owner of my childhood neighborhood fritura now? :disappoin


chuckuindy , you don't need to buy grated yucca, do as everybody does, buy yucca and a grater.
;) I was thinking more along the lines of the empanadas......or where you make a pastry or breading/batter from a flourlike substance.......
oh well....that's why we have Aunt Clara around to correct our follies!
 

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If my memory serves me right, I expereinced my very first 'Chulito' @ Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson NJ in or about 1981. (Mega Amuzememt Theme Park)

It was a long (about 12") twisted pastry fried in oil and doused in cinnamon.
(tasted like a cross between a doughnut and a zepole) I think this was considered a 'Mexican' treat, however.

Delicious just the same!
 

chuckuindy

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MommC said:
;) I was thinking more along the lines of the empanadas......or where you make a pastry or breading/batter from a flourlike substance.......
oh well....that's why we have Aunt Clara around to correct our follies!

I have tryed several variations on the batter and breading. Flour, crushed crackers, prepared breading mixes and even KFC breading mix. None give it the desired taste.
 

chuckuindy

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timelessdreams said:
If my memory serves me right, I expereinced my very first 'Chulito' @ Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson NJ in or about 1981. (Mega Amuzememt Theme Park)

It was a long (about 12") twisted pastry fried in oil and doused in cinnamon.
(tasted like a cross between a doughnut and a zepole) I think this was considered a 'Mexican' treat, however.

Delicious just the same!

Not the same thing. They are meat filled.
 

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timelessdreams...

timelessdreams said:
...It was a long (about 12") twisted pastry fried in oil and doused in cinnamon. (tasted like a cross between a doughnut and a zepole) I think this was considered a 'Mexican' treat, however...
Those are Churros. Chulitos are made with yucca and aren't sweet.

-Indie
 

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if im not mistaken...chulitos are sorta like brazilian COXINHA. either cassava or potato mixture...with various meat fillings.

<sigh> i used to have this little brazilian bodega near my place and used to get those every day
 

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chuckuindy said:
I have become a chulito freak. I can not get enough of them while I am in the DR. They are addictive.

I have a great recipe from Aunt Clara?s Kitchen but I am having a difficult time finding prepared ground cassava. Any suggestions?

Charlie
Its simple cassava is yuca root ,peel and boil like potatoes.Then you can mash it and form it and deep fry it yumyum
 

chuckuindy

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Thank you thank you

mullinsca said:
Its simple cassava is yuca root ,peel and boil like potatoes.Then you can mash it and form it and deep fry it yumyum

For some reason I thought it was the the plant rather than the root. Now to find some yuca root in Indianapolis.