03/07/2020
1.Garri – Fried Cassava
This form of cassava food is processed by grinding and squeezing out the
starchy content. The residue is left for three day to ferment (Ijebu Garri)
thereafter, it is fried with into sand-like grains and the quality is determined
by the dryness. That is, the drier the better. Other types like the popular
Bendel Garri is fried immediately after grinding and squeezing out the water
without leaving it to ferment.
2. The Cassava Tuber As Food
Cassava tubers could be cooked and enjoyed with varieties of stews also, it
could be pounded and enjoyed like the usual pounded yam. But not all
variety of cassava can be eaten that way as many are known to be highly
toxic when eaten in such form.
3. Starch
The starch is usually a by-product in the garri process. Apart from being
useful in other domestic application the cassava starch is a favorite food
among the Urhobo people of Delta State. And they eat it just like Amala and
Garri.
4. Amala
Cassava is processed into amala first by cutting it into pieces, soak it for
two or three days, drying and grinding it into flour, the flour is then prepared
similar to fufu and enjoyed with the popular Yoruba’s Ewedu soup.
5. Fufu
Fufu is obtained by soaking the tuber into water for between four to five day
to get it softened, then manually remove the chaff. The Cassava preparation
follows similar process to garri but instead of frying, it is cooked and
pounded into a pulp of various hardness and eaten with Nigerian soups such
as the popular Igbo’s Egusi soup.
6. Abacha
This is obtained by boiling the cassava tuber, peel off the back and cut the
remaining into tiny pieces. Thereafter, it is soaked in a clean water over the
night to get the starch out, the slippy deposit is washed off the actual food
which then cooked as a local salad.
7. Cassava Bread
Recently, the baked version of the cassava foods was introduced into the
Nigerian cassava food staples and people are having fun with it. So baking
is another way that cassava in now eaten in Nigeria.
These are the reasons why Cassava crops production is a money spinner in
Nigeria which smart investors can take advantage of and make million.
Do you know any cassava food in your locality that is not mentioned here?
Let us know by commenting.
8. Cassava Vegetable
The cassava leafs is used to prepare vegetable soup by some in Nigeria.
However, it must be cooked properly to detoxify before e
