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Bunuelos Cubanos
Jamie Silva’s Cuban buñuelos combine yuca and malanga in a soft, anise-scented dough.
About Bunuelos Cubanos
Jamie Silva’s Cuban buñuelos combine yuca and malanga in a soft, anise-scented dough. The root vegetables are boiled and mashed, then mixed with egg and flour before the dough is shaped into figure eights.
The pastries fry until golden while retaining a soft, doughy centre. Their syrup combines sugar, cinnamon, star anise, lime juice and lime zest.
Silva describes these fritters as a Cuban Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve sweet. They are served warm, with the cinnamon-anise syrup spooned over them or offered on the side.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Bunuelos Cubanos
Jamie Silva’s Cuban yuca-and-malanga buñuelos.
- YucaBase
- MalangaBase
- EggBinder
- Anise extractAromaticIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- All-purpose flourBinder
- Vegetable oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Granulated sugarSweetener
- WaterLiquid
- Cinnamon stickAromatic
- Star aniseAromatic
- Lime juiceLiquid
- Lime zestAromatic
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Yuca: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual99 peeled fresh yuca.
- Malanga: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual101 Egg.
- Anise extract: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual102 extract, full product/botanical formula unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- All-purpose flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual104/111 conventional allpurpose Wheat, dough plus dusting.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual105 unknown botanical type.
- Granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual syrup109 and rootboil110.
- Cinnamon stick: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Star anise: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lime juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lime zest: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual97 zest, broader lime mapping.
Origins & food traditions
Cuba association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Cuba
- CubaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Cuban Cuisine
- Cuban CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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