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Carimañola
Cassava pastries filled with beef, green onion and red pepper.

About Carimañola
My Colombian Cocina’s carimañolas de carne are cassava pastries with a beef filling. The original recipe identifies them among the typical foods of Colombia, Panama and Brazil; this profile follows its beef version.
Green onion and red pepper flavour the meat, with a chicken-bouillon cube used in its preparation. Salt and pepper provide the seasoning, while olive oil enriches the aromatic filling.
The soft cassava dough encloses the finely ground meat. A wheat-flour dusting covers the outside before frying, giving the finished pastries a golden surface. Lemon slices are an optional accompaniment.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Carimañola
My Colombian Cocina’s beef-filled carimañolas.
- Yuca (cassava)BaseIngredient page not linked
- BeefFilling
- Green onionAromatic
- Red pepperAromatic
- Chicken-bouillon cubeSeasoning
- Wheat flourFinish
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Frying oilCooking medium
- WaterLiquid
- Olive oilCooking medium
- Shaping-plastic greaseCooking medium · ShapingIngredient page not linked
- Lemon slicesAccompaniment · Optional serving · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Yuca (cassava): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Ingredient page link pending verification or catalogue review
- Beef: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Red pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Pimentón rojo in Spanish source
- Chicken-bouillon cube: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Full formula unspecified
- Wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Explicit harina de trigo in Spanish; dusting/coating
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Pepper colour/type unspecified
- Frying oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Botanical source unspecified
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit cassava and beef boiling water
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only filling sauté addition
- Shaping-plastic grease: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method explicitly greased bag; medium not named
- Lemon slices (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Selected optional pairing over aji/hot-sauce alternatives
Origins & food traditions
Selected Colombian publisher beef/cassava preparation; wider country association explicitly described in source.
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Colombian Cuisine
- Colombian Caribbean CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Panamanian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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