
Dominica · Kalinago
Cassava Bread
A Taíno flatbread of grated cassava pressed dry and baked on a hot griddle.
- Préparation
- 60 min
- Cuisson
- 20 min
- Total
- 80 min
- Pour
- 6
- Difficulté
- Avancé
- Type
- En-cas
Ingrédients
6 personnes
- Salt1 tsp
Préparation
- 1
Grate the cassava finely and press out all liquid in a cloth or matapi.
- 2
Sieve the dried pulp into a light flour.
- 3
Spread on a hot griddle in an even round and cook until it sets and lifts.
- 4
Flip and dry the second side until crisp at the edges.
Astuces
- — Only sweet cassava should be used at home; bitter cassava requires traditional processing.
Nutrition
Valeurs par portion · Calculées
- calories
- 198 kcal
- protéines
- 1.6 g
- glucides
- 48 g
- lipides
- 0.4 g
- fibres
- 2.2 g
- sucres
- 2 g
- sodium
- 210 mg

L'ingrédient derrière cette recette
Cassava
Caribbean PantryThe oldest staple of the Caribbean, cultivated long before contact.
- Origine
- Indigenous to the Amazon and the Antilles
- Saveur
- Neutral, waxy, faintly sweet
- Calories / 100 g
- 160 kcal
- Saisonnalité
- Year-round
L'histoire de cet ingrédient
Taíno communities processed bitter cassava into cassava bread thousands of years ago. That flatbread survives today in Dominica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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