How to Use yuca in a Sentence

yuca

noun
  • Start with yuca fries and sweet plantains to share.
    — Amber Gibson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Raw chicken stored above ready-to-eat yuca fries.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Nov. 2025
  • My favorite meal was the chicken burger with sriracha aioli and yuca fries.
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 4 Sep. 2024
  • In a bowl, toss the yuca chips with the Wild Game Rub and the cheese.
    — ExpressNews.com, 5 June 2019
  • Hot and soft fried yuca fries and homemade cole slaw complete the happy picnic.
    — By Kendall Hamersly, miamiherald, 2 Aug. 2017
  • His labor-intensive yuca tostadas, which take two days to make, are offered two ways at Si!
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • These gluten-free pancakes are made with cassava flour, which is made from a starchy tuberous root vegetable called a yuca.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Dishes range from lobster aguachile or deviled beet eggs to hearty mains like bone marrow short rib pappardelle or shrimp tamales with crispy yuca.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The exhaustive menu features seafood soup, a variety of steak plates, and must-get yuca croquettes.
    — Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2024
  • The storm also damaged crops, including coffee and yuca.
    — Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Cassava, also known as yuca or manioc, is a staple food in many African countries.
    — Daniel Danino, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But don’t overlook more inventive plates like the crunchy yuca tostada layered with tuna carpaccio and spiced up with onion salsa.
    — Carolyn Heller, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The Jamaican restaurant is known for dishes like jerk tofu, yuca fries, conch fritters, Key lime pie, and more.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2025
  • The family, with a household income of $16 a month, is surviving on yuca and plantains.
    — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Arepas, pupusas, yuca frita, margaritas and sangria are just a few of the specialties.
    — cleveland.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The round flatbread is made from cassava, or yuca, flour that is cooked over a fire or on ceramic plates, with the exact preparation varying by country.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There are several different kinds of ceviche, yuca fritters, and chicken chicharrones with cilantro salsa.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The Carimañolas, a yuca fritter, each stuffed with something different, from meat to cheese, were delicious and the gin drinks well balanced.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Lincoln logs of cake, made with yuca and coconut, arrive on a plate that’s dusted with powdered sugar and filled out with a royal purple scoop of ube ice cream sprinkled with coconut.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That’s the case on his latest album el precio de la yuca, an album structured like a radio show taking place 80 years from now, capturing sounds ahead of their time.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Instead of french fries, the chicken is served with yuca fries — oversize and blond, with a crackly exterior and lusciously soft interior.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • On Tuesdays and Fridays diners come for baho (yuca and steamed pork), on weekends for nacatamales (giant custard-soft tamales packed with meats and eggs).
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2018
  • September’s el precio de la yuca was a clever urbano concept album imagining a future podcast finding the record and unpacking it in real time.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Diners will find classics like encebollado (fish soup with yuca, albacore tuna and citrus onions) and cazuela de platano (green plantains, peanut and tuna).
    — Connie Ogle april 10, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • With a sofrito as its backbone, sancocho is rumored to have medicinal powers to cure hangovers and is filled to the tip top with beef, chicken, pork, corn, green plantains, yuca, auyama and yautia.
    — Andre James, Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2026
  • Dine on yuca con chicarron (cassava with pork skins) or Mexican ceviche or select from the vast array of breakfast, lunch or dinner selections.
    — Loán Lake, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Uncover; skim off/discard any fat that accumulates on the surface, then add the potatoes, yuca, pumpkin, plantains and corn, stirring to distribute evenly.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
  • Its variations are almost endless, including ones based on rice flour, yuca flour or masa harina, for different calibrations of density and loft.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • Her sous-chef, Fida, outfitted in black, has prepped a huge pile of onions in a neat julienned stack for bistec encebollado con mandioca – a dish of seasoned beef with sautéed onions served with yuca.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The dinner is a group effort, and while some stay in the kitchen cooking sides like rice and yuca, others are outside roasting the pig, which was seasoned days in advance, in a caja china, a roasting box used to bury a whole pig in coals.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025

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