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Definition: Yuca Frita is a a side dish made from the fried root of the cassava plant (as opposed to the yucca plant). Usually, the root is cut into two- or three-inch chunks and deep-fried in vegetable oil.
The potato-like starch that you find in Latino cuisines and in some trendy bistros nowadays is cassava or Manihot esculenta, a native of South America and consumed in large quantities throughout Latin America, Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean. Yuca â pronounced yoo-cuh - is the root portion of the plant. Tapioca flour and pearls are made from the powdered root, along with many other common foods - check out this Wikipedia article for just a few of the hundreds of uses for cassava. Yucca, on the other hand, is an ornamental plant: They are those spiky flowered plants common in Southern and Western parts of the US, including Florida, New Mexico, and California. But they don't have the edible root of the yuca, and are commonly confused.