Cassava Recipe
Golden brown Curried Cassava Fritters are a delicious inexpensive African recipe ready in just minutes. Cassava is very versatile root vegetable and is used the main ingredient in bread, fries, roasted veggie stews and soups, chin-chin, fritters, sweet cakes and fufu.
Curried Cassava Fritters
African Recipes by The African Gourmet
Golden brown Curried Cassava Fritters are a delicious inexpensive African recipe ready in just minutes.
Ingredients:
2 Cups finely grated cassava
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1-2 cups Oil for frying
Directions:
In a large frying pan heat vegetable oil. Wash, peel and finely grate the fresh cassava in a food processor. Add spices, mix well and form small flat fritters with the pulp mixture. Fry the fritters in hot oil until golden brown about 3 minutes on each side. Sprinkle with extra salt or curry powder before serving.
Did you know?
Cassava or Manihot esculenta Crantz is the third most important food crop in sub-Saharan Africa after rice and maize (corn).
Cassava or Manihot esculenta Crantz is the third most important food crop in sub-Saharan Africa after rice and maize (corn).
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| Young girls helping in cassava processing in Nigeria. (Photo by IITA) |
