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Question by tveexdd: How do you eat a dish called yuca con chicharron?
I ordered that dish to go from a salvadorean restaurant and it came with potato chunks and dried meat with tomato slices and lettuce. It was all really plain and I don’t know if you eat them separately or if there’s a certain way to eat it like with a sauce???
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Answer by kimberly
You werent eating potatoes or dried meat…. Yuca is not potato it is a different vegetable and chicharrones are the skins (usually of a pig) they are usually dried and then cooked in some sauce so they can soften. And you eat all that separately.
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it’s not potatoes but a root called yuca, and dried meat? it should be something like pig rind. I have a limit on how much CHicharron I can eat before getting sick. I think 2 or three pieces. Made ribs once and took the fat and rendered it. Had left over CHicharron and gave it to my friend at work. My coworkers question what I did and think it was evil that I gave someone pig fat.
i looked at some of the versions. Different areas have different interpretation of Chicharron evidently. Some still use pig rinds, but others seem to use pork belly with the skin still attached and otehr totally substiute with regular pork.
In some spanish based countries they kind of change the recipe but keep the old name. The people lose touch of the origin of the name. Like the term suckling pig in spanish is Lechon, but in Philipinies and Cuba it’s just a regular roast pig. they kind of cheap out and use older pigs and lost touch of it’s original meaning
You eat it with salsa of course. Yuca or tapioca the asian called it and yuca is where you made tequila with. Just like a poor man dish, you dip or drench the chunks or cube with salsa for carbs to fill you up, chicharron for savoury taste and those veggies to compliment and don’t give you indigestion. Remember to order tequila….a perfect meal *
Yuca is like a root vegetable I think I’ve only had it once and if I were to explain it to anyone else I would think it is similar like a potato. Chicharron is deep fried pork belly which I don’t eat since I dislike Pork. I’m not familiar with Salvadorian Cuisine but if I were to guess if it’s southern american cuisine you would probably eat it with salsa or probably spanish rice? I’m just guessing.
It is alot like the Puerto Rican dish Mufungo, I have had it and the Mufungo here in Canada, Florida and Caribbean, it is like any other plate meal a knife and fork is traditional, there type of Chicharones have meat on them, the Yucca/Cassava is boiled. I was served Salsa Verde, a smoked tomato salsa and a garlic sauce with more garlic in than Dracula could take