Payagua Mascada

Description
"Chewed payagua"

Ingredients

 * 350 g of cooked and ground beef (or if you prefer, raw)
 * 1 kg of mandioca
 * 1 clove of garlic
 * 4 tbsp of fat or oil
 * 1 tbsp of fine salt
 * 1 pinch of cumin
 * 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
 * chopped and fried onion
 * 2 tbsp cornstarch

Directions

 * 1) Peel and boil mandioca in  salt water, when tender, remove from heat and purée.
 * 2) Add the meat to the purée of mandioca, along with the garlic, onion, salt, cumin and starch.
 * 3) Mixed well until you achieve a homogenous mass.
 * 4) With wet hands form  the tortillas and they are frien in hot oil, if the meat is cooked, or hardly warms up if the meat is crude.
 * 5) The original prescription into small flat disks.
 * 6) Fry in oil until cooked through.
 * 7) In the countryside, they add cornmeal to the preparation.