I grew up in the Philippines and use to have this root crop for food at times when rice was expensive and scarce. We usually boil them and make cassava cake out of the grated fresh cassava. Reminds me of my country life in the boondocks. Thank you for the video. And by the way, our method of planting cassava sticks is dig 5 inches on the ground and lay the stick horizontally and cover the whole thing with soil. This way all the stick will produce tubers for more harvest and you don't need to worry which one is the bottom or top part. You earn one subscriber.
Thank You so much!GREAT INFO! I just harvested my first cassava today here in Pensacola FL. Only have 5 plants. Hopefully my cuttings will survive the winter and I can plant more next spring.
My wife is from West Africa and cassava is a primary food source for them. There are other preservation methods that work well. They shred, press, and dry it. The resulting gari is shelf stable for years. It is used as a primary, inexpensive starch in their diets. Lot of uses for it too. It can also be powdered after drying for use in a dish called fufu. Both of the dried forms will keep for years with no spoilage and are very easy to make.
The garri can be eaten like cereal 🥣 too…with cold milk and sugar. Very delicious!! You can garnish the cereal with pieces of coconut or roasted peanuts for crunch…some add bits of chocolate too for a coco puffs feel 😋😋😋
I had never heard of cassava until my sponsored child in Uganda mentioned it. I watched your video and now I can write my child and tell her! Thank you-very informing video!
Thank you! I never knew how to plant it nor peel it as easily as you did. In Costa Rica, instead of mashing it first, we also fry it with oil or butter and is so tasty!!
My Grandmother used to make so many different things out of yuca. From boiled with vinegar to yummy desserts. I miss my Great Grandma no one in the family truly cooks like she did.
If you want the best result for cooking your cassava always cover it with less water and add salt I’m a Ghanaian and cassava is one of our major foods. Thank you.
In Mozambique eat the leaves and also the roots. The leaves we mash with garlic and then we cook with coconut milk mixed with blended peanuts, it is absolutely delicious we called Matapa.
Yeah that tastes great. In Indonesia, we also consume the leaves. Sometimes we make dish from cassava leaves, mung bean sprouts, basil leaves mixed with shredded coconut. We call the dish "Urap".
I live in west Africa and I was growing cassava, the women cook the leaves and make a sort of plasas with it. My neighbor was using my leaves for the year it was growing! So it was constantly providing food.
In Jamaica we call them bitter and sweet cassava, just as you mentioned. The bitter cassava is used to make bammy, which is a flat bread mostly eaten with fish, etc. The sweet cassava is boiled and eaten just as you did, but we mostly prefer the bammy. Cassava is the most starchy food I know when boiled. So much starch that when I was a child, I remember the starch being extracted and used to starch clothes. Probably still done in parts of the island.
9:03 you can also eat it with sweet tea with milk. In Kenya we like eating it for breakfast with tea. 4:30 you can also preserve it for longer when dried and turned into flour.
You can boil with pink salt and garlic cloves till tender. Then put infused garlic olive oil and a tad of lemon.I take the center woody part after boiling.
When I harvest cassava, I would peel , wash and freeze them. And when I need to cook it just take it out the freezer and cook. It's fresh as the day harvested. When cassava is bitter it's because it overgrown. It's good to plant it by the moon. Thank you for this video. You're on point with your intofrmation.
I was wondering about this as recently harvested my first crop and there was too much. I handed out a lot to neighbors then i peeled and washed some and put in the freezer. I've now defrosted since last night and want to boil it tomorrow. I was googling cassava to find out of its safe to freeze! Thank you very much. One question - should i have defrosted before cooking or just cooked it frozen? The reason i defrost is because otherwise i cannot cut it. I guess i should have cut it when i harvested it before freezing.
@@kouranko Yes that's correct. You need to peel it,wash it,cut it to size bag it into say two pound bags and then freeze it. In that way when ever you need to cook you take it out of the freezer and drop it into your pot of boiling water. There you go !!
Thanks for your informative video. Cassava is much better than every grain (product)!! My father's been eating cassava for 105 yrs, and he's still alive and strong. I've been eating cassava since infancy, and I'm healthier than ever! Unfortunately, there are lots and lots of misinformation about cassava. But fortunately, I know cassava very well. I've no options but to subscribe to your channel.
You don’t need to remove the wood part from the center before cooking though. Just boil it and when it’s ready then you cut it and pull the middle part out, much easier :)
You can keep it for a year if you half cook it and dry it in the sun. It becomes hard. When ever you want to use it again, you can soak it overnight and then cook it as normal. It's a different taste but really good.
Great, informative video. Thank you so much for sharing. I was born in Puerto Rico, my mom is Cuban and my Dad was Spanish. I grew up eating yuca/yucca. I'm going to share though with you how we do it, besides boiling the root. In addition, we make what's called mojo. We take an onion, slice it up in thin rounds, good amount of minced garlic, lol, and saute it in olive oil for about 20 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir, don't allow the garlic to blacken. Let it all brown. Then when ready, drain your yuca/yucca and liberally pour the mojo over it. I promise you this shall be an upgrade. 😉😆😙
Cassava is our staple food in Uganda - West Nile region. Cassava flour can be mixed with Sorghum or Millet flour to produce very nice bread which is really good with meat or chicken stew.
Hello! Thank you for the video. I grow Tapioca (sweet) in my yard for over 30 years. I have never grown it to harvest and prepare for eating. I grow it for it's beautiful leaves, easy to start, and a hedge of it as it grows taller makes for a nice sun blocker into my NW facing windows. I like pairing it up with Cordyline, bromeliads and sun impatience.
That’s a great way to use it, as a hedge! It’s so easy to grow and is prolific 🤙🏾✨ and if you’re ever in a pinch for some carbs, can always dig up some tubers.
Thanks for the video! In my culture from the Caribbean islands, we use cassava for many things in our diet, it is a staple. You can mash it and make fufu which is delicious with saucy dishes. You can also put harvested cassava in a bucket of very lightly dampened sand, or sand that has been cooled via shade and it will keep longer due to the temperature of the sand, acting as a refrigeration-ish technique. Also, I make cassava flour which I can make all sorts of dishes with, even a dessert dish.
To make cassava last, you can grate it and dry (use cheese cloth and squeeze) and turn into cassava flour (you can make tortillas, bread, cakes, or use as thickener); this is also done with breadfruit before it ripens too much
I saw a video of indigenous practice in Brazil where they weave a storage basket and use special leaves to wrap the flour into, then bind it up into a nice tidy package that's about the size of a watermelon. They said it stays good that way for about a year!
Grew up eating it. In Africa, they use the LEAF of the cassava plant to make Pondu ou saka-saka , which is a stew. Pretty much any chicken or beef or fish stew can be turned into pondu if you add cassava leaves, pounded and cooked for at least half an hour into the stew, with cassava roots (or taro, or yams) and spices also in the stew.
I've been growing a little cassava, and you definitely get a lot of leaves! Made Pondu a few times based only on UA-cam instructions. The leaves are a little rugged, and also there are so many! More than I can possibly eat. I tried cooking it in a pressure cooker a few times, it didn't help much. I'm pretty sure this is the origin of some popular southern (USA) dishes of cooked greens, like collard greens.
The discoloration is caused by exposure to air. Its still good. We just boil it and dip it on sugar. Make sure you don’t boil it with peel. I grew up planting those in the Philippines. You can buy those already grated frozen from Asian stores. You can make cassava cake popular desert among Filipinos.
I've forget it, you can season them with leek. Take the green part of the leeks, clean it. Cut it up in small pieces, and then get them in a blender. Blend it until it's liquid. Keep blending and add your preferred oil slowly. It's going to get mayo consistency but green. Add salt. It's delicious with cassava.
In Sri Lanka we make Cassava leaves salad too. need to take the young leaves and put onion, G.Chilli, garlic scraped coconut and with a pestal&motar you have to grind it. then you have to put salt and lime to taste.
Their Indonesian names are "ubi" or "singkong". Cassava leafs cooked in coconut milk and small fish is a favorite dish in Indonesia. Fermented cassava (using yeast) is called "tape" and is a popular dessert in Indonesia.
I don’t sell them. I just share ideas and expertise. If you want to be healthy you have to eat proper plants and vegetables. Why not grow them yourself since they are more healthy.
You can also store cassava by peeling, cut lengthways thinly about 0.5 to 1cm, spread out on clean surface leave to sun-dry - then you can store this sun dried cassava for months inside a hessian sack in a dry place.
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In Jamaica we make small flat breads called bammy. We grate the casava, squeeze out the liquid make a kind of patty out of it and fry lightly. Then we soak it in coconut milk for 15 to 20 min and brown in a frying pan. I hope that's enough for the cyanide to disappear :-O!
In Jamaica it is also grated and made into a kind of flat cake called bammy. This is further fried, baked or steamed and eaten mainly with fish. It is a favourite of most Jamaicans.
Thanks for tip about cutting the two ends differently! I'm sure I've planted loads upside down! Here in Bali we plant them slanted. Like elephant grass. Don't kniw why.
Thanks for your info on growing cassava. I grew up in Kenya and remember eating baked cassava 'mohogo' over coals. Where can I get branches in order to grow some myself. I live in Melbourne Australia.
It's not Brasilian its Central American , oldest known Yuca cultivation site on earth is in El Salvador where a volcano buried and preserved a Mayan village Anywhere that calls it casava by default had it introduced to their country by whoever came up with the name "casava"
Aloha, we are on the dry side of Big Island, and came across your video as we will be getting some cassava slips to plant. Thank you for this comprehensive video. Will make sure to put plenty of mulch on top.
Love your guys videos I just found your channel last night. Was up all night watching your videos. It's good to see local people doing this kin of videos. Would love to see you guys to get with Green Garden Guy and make a video. He is da only other local UA-camr/gardener I know of. Keep it up hope you guys never stop being UA-camrs.
This is cultivated in india its name hrre is tapioka we makes it different types of chips makes starch out of it boils eats with chutney or sardine curry its a staple food of kerala i have planted it in my farm iam getting 20 pounds from each plant can get harvest after 10 months its originated from africa when portughese came to india they brought it to our country
here in the caribbean we usually saute the cassava after boiling it with butter , garlic, green seasoning to be eaten with any meats like stew chicken, bar-b-que chicken but our favourite is with fried salted fish with a lot of veges. great job man
Here in Sri Lanka we fry it like french fries or chips in deep oil.....Also we boil it and eat it with coconut...We make a curry too ..and so much more.
That's great, yes, but in some part of Africa, we plant the cassava sticks horizontally with the same amount of spacing. Anyway you are doing great. Yes, we boil them like how you did it. Is that the only way you eat cassava, well, here in parts of west Africa, we boil and pound it in a mortar to make fufu which eat with sauce, we grater it to eat as either steamed or roses and many other ways. Please me what other ways you use on your s'aide to eat cassava and what do you do with the leaves as well????
New sub here who hit the bell too! Just found your channel. That was a fantastic video covering everything we need to know about growing and eating casva. I started a food forest last year and I think your channel is going to help me a lot. Keep it going please :-) Thanks so much for putting it together. Nice photography, and I really like your lay back style too. Thanks brother. Greetings from Australia :-)
Thank you informative video where do you purchase to get the sweet one since it's easier since it's just for one person or maybe two persons can you grow it in a a big container if if you can't grow it in the ground
Cassava is a starchy root vegetable that is commonly used to produce tapioca. Here is a general overview of the process: Harvest and Cleaning: The mature cassava roots are harvested from the ground and thoroughly cleaned to remove dirt and outer skin. Grating: The cleaned cassava roots are grated using a mechanical grater or manually with traditional methods. This produces a wet, fibrous pulp. Pressing: The grated cassava pulp is then pressed to remove excess moisture. This can be done using a press or by placing the pulp in a sack and squeezing it by hand. The goal is to extract as much liquid as possible. Settling: The liquid obtained from pressing the cassava pulp is allowed to sit and settle for a few hours. During this time, the heavier starch particles sink to the bottom, while the top layer contains water and some impurities. Separation: The settled mixture is carefully poured off, leaving behind the starchy sediment at the bottom. This sediment is the raw cassava starch. Drying: The extracted cassava starch is spread out on flat surfaces, such as trays or mats, to dry. Traditionally, this is done under the sun, but commercial production may use mechanical dryers. The starch is dried until it becomes brittle and breaks easily. Milling: Once fully dried, the cassava starch is milled into a fine powder. This milling process helps break down any remaining lumps and ensures a consistent texture. Sieving: The milled cassava starch is sieved to remove any coarse particles and achieve a smooth tapioca flour. Bagging and Packaging: The final tapioca flour is collected, bagged, and packaged for distribution and sale. It is now ready to be used in various culinary applications. It's important to note that the above process is a general overview, and variations may exist depending on the specific production methods used. Additionally, tapioca pearls, which are commonly used in desserts and bubble tea, undergo additional processing steps involving shaping and cooking before they become the familiar translucent balls.
Hello, thanks for the video, I would love to plant yuccas in my backyard. But I can't find anyone who sells cassava cuttings to plant or seeds. I live in USA, California.
You can dry cassava and make cassava powder. You can leave cassava in water for few days to remove cyanide. You can cooked the. Or let it became soft and make some cake.
I bought some cassava at the grocery store. It’s covered in that wax. I want to plant it and start growing it…..any advice?? I’ve been very successful with ginger, turmeric, sweet potatoes, etc.
Yeah that would be useful information. We dont know much of the specific nutritional information but I could imagine that it is a resistant starch. I'm sure the internet has some info on that 🙂
I grew up in the Philippines and use to have this root crop for food at times when rice was expensive and scarce. We usually boil them and make cassava cake out of the grated fresh cassava. Reminds me of my country life in the boondocks. Thank you for the video. And by the way, our method of planting cassava sticks is dig 5 inches on the ground and lay the stick horizontally and cover the whole thing with soil. This way all the stick will produce tubers for more harvest and you don't need to worry which one is the bottom or top part. You earn one subscriber.
I saw some guys in Ghana that actually cut off the nodes and plant them, and it grows in about 5 months!
So you don't need to stick the bottom part into the soil? Wow amazing technique👏
What the benefits of cassava
Thank You so much!GREAT INFO! I
just harvested my first cassava today here in Pensacola FL. Only have 5 plants. Hopefully my cuttings will survive the winter and I can plant more next spring.
dude you are so calm and cool
My wife is from West Africa and cassava is a primary food source for them. There are other preservation methods that work well. They shred, press, and dry it. The resulting gari is shelf stable for years. It is used as a primary, inexpensive starch in their diets. Lot of uses for it too. It can also be powdered after drying for use in a dish called fufu. Both of the dried forms will keep for years with no spoilage and are very easy to make.
Nice! It is such a great crop! Thanks for the info.
The garri can be eaten like cereal 🥣 too…with cold milk and sugar. Very delicious!!
You can garnish the cereal with pieces of coconut or roasted peanuts for crunch…some add bits of chocolate too for a coco puffs feel 😋😋😋
I had never heard of cassava until my sponsored child in Uganda mentioned it. I watched your video and now I can write my child and tell her! Thank you-very informing video!
Going to make fufu from cassava for the very first time here. I am really excited! Thank you for the explanation 🤗
Thank you! I never knew how to plant it nor peel it as easily as you did. In Costa Rica, instead of mashing it first, we also fry it with oil or butter and is so tasty!!
My Grandmother used to make so many different things out of yuca. From boiled with vinegar to yummy desserts. I miss my Great Grandma no one in the family truly cooks like she did.
If you want the best result for cooking your cassava always cover it with less water and add salt I’m a Ghanaian and cassava is one of our major foods. Thank you.
You are spot on Esther. 👍😘
You are correct I grew up in Africa
Thank you.. it's a staple here in trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Where do I get this vegetable in mumbai
Do you know Indian name of this vegetable
In Mozambique eat the leaves and also the roots.
The leaves we mash with garlic and then we cook with coconut milk mixed with blended peanuts, it is absolutely delicious we called Matapa.
Yeah that tastes great. In Indonesia, we also consume the leaves. Sometimes we make dish from cassava leaves, mung bean sprouts, basil leaves mixed with shredded coconut. We call the dish "Urap".
Igor. How are you. I am in South Africa. I would like to plant cassava. Can you help me get some sticks?
Cassava roots, peels and leaves should not be consumed raw because they contain two cyanogenic glucosides, linamarin and lotaustralin.
I live in west Africa and I was growing cassava, the women cook the leaves and make a sort of plasas with it. My neighbor was using my leaves for the year it was growing! So it was constantly providing food.
In Jamaica we call them bitter and sweet cassava, just as you mentioned. The bitter cassava is used to make bammy, which is a flat bread mostly eaten with fish, etc. The sweet cassava is boiled and eaten just as you did, but we mostly prefer the bammy. Cassava is the most starchy food I know when boiled. So much starch that when I was a child, I remember the starch being extracted and used to starch clothes. Probably still done in parts of the island.
9:03 you can also eat it with sweet tea with milk. In Kenya we like eating it for breakfast with tea.
4:30 you can also preserve it for longer when dried and turned into flour.
You can boil with pink salt and garlic cloves till tender. Then put infused garlic olive oil and a tad of lemon.I take the center woody part after boiling.
Waoo. I am from Africa and we grow cassava. I can tell you that one really produced a good harvest
Im from fiji.. peel it.. wash with properly with water. Potion it in ziplock bag nd freeze kt.. it will last for a year
Will it have the same taste? When cooking it
You explain well… Your time and research matters. Each one ☝🏽 teach one
I agree he explains pretty good
When I harvest cassava, I would peel , wash and freeze them. And when I need to cook it just take it out the freezer and cook. It's fresh as the day harvested. When cassava is bitter it's because it overgrown. It's good to plant it by the moon. Thank you for this video. You're on point with your intofrmation.
DO YOU MEAN PLANT THEM WHEN ITS FULL MOON? CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY? THANKU
I was wondering about this as recently harvested my first crop and there was too much. I handed out a lot to neighbors then i peeled and washed some and put in the freezer. I've now defrosted since last night and want to boil it tomorrow. I was googling cassava to find out of its safe to freeze! Thank you very much. One question - should i have defrosted before cooking or just cooked it frozen? The reason i defrost is because otherwise i cannot cut it. I guess i should have cut it when i harvested it before freezing.
@@kouranko Yes that's correct. You need to peel it,wash it,cut it to size bag it into say two pound bags and then freeze it. In that way when ever you need to cook you take it out of the freezer and drop it into your pot of boiling water. There you go !!
Thanks for your informative video. Cassava is much better than every grain (product)!!
My father's been eating cassava for 105 yrs, and he's still alive and strong. I've been eating cassava since infancy, and I'm healthier than ever!
Unfortunately, there are lots and lots of misinformation about cassava. But fortunately, I know cassava very well.
I've no options but to subscribe to your channel.
Which variety would you recommend in Subtropical climate?
How do you and your father like to eat your cassava?
I love cassava, my Dad planted a lot of cassava. I am from 🇬🇩 Grenada, we make Farine, which is our natural cereal.
You don’t need to remove the wood part from the center before cooking though. Just boil it and when it’s ready then you cut it and pull the middle part out, much easier :)
You can keep it for a year if you half cook it and dry it in the sun. It becomes hard. When ever you want to use it again, you can soak it overnight and then cook it as normal. It's a different taste but really good.
Interesting!
Thank you ! I have just started eating this. Lv and Prayers to all.
Great, informative video. Thank you so much for sharing. I was born in Puerto Rico, my mom is Cuban and my Dad was Spanish. I grew up eating yuca/yucca. I'm going to share though with you how we do it, besides boiling the root. In addition, we make what's called mojo. We take an onion, slice it up in thin rounds, good amount of minced garlic, lol, and saute it in olive oil for about 20 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir, don't allow the garlic to blacken. Let it all brown. Then when ready, drain your yuca/yucca and liberally pour the mojo over it. I promise you this shall be an upgrade. 😉😆😙
Yuca and yucca are not the same thing
Cassava is our staple food in Uganda - West Nile region. Cassava flour can be mixed with Sorghum or Millet flour to produce very nice bread which is really good with meat or chicken stew.
You can taste the food from your description! So good.
Thanks. I've just started using it so your comment is really helpful! Blessed Be 🙌 😇
@@grace-shantif2073 enjoy 🙂
Hello! Thank you for the video. I grow Tapioca (sweet) in my yard for over 30 years. I have never grown it to harvest and prepare for eating. I grow it for it's beautiful leaves, easy to start, and a hedge of it as it grows taller makes for a nice sun blocker into my NW facing windows. I like pairing it up with Cordyline, bromeliads and sun impatience.
That’s a great way to use it, as a hedge! It’s so easy to grow and is prolific 🤙🏾✨ and if you’re ever in a pinch for some carbs, can always dig up some tubers.
@@OffGridHawaii I think the tallest mine have gotten is around 8 to10 feet tall.
I am in Central Florida, East Coast. Planting zones 9,10, 11,
Thanks for the video! In my culture from the Caribbean islands, we use cassava for many things in our diet, it is a staple. You can mash it and make fufu which is delicious with saucy dishes. You can also put harvested cassava in a bucket of very lightly dampened sand, or sand that has been cooled via shade and it will keep longer due to the temperature of the sand, acting as a refrigeration-ish technique. Also, I make cassava flour which I can make all sorts of dishes with, even a dessert dish.
To make cassava last, you can grate it and dry (use cheese cloth and squeeze) and turn into cassava flour (you can make tortillas, bread, cakes, or use as thickener); this is also done with breadfruit before it ripens too much
Yes, definitely want to try this!
I make spaghetti and pasta from cassava
I would love to know how to make pasta with cassava.
I saw a video of indigenous practice in Brazil where they weave a storage basket and use special leaves to wrap the flour into, then bind it up into a nice tidy package that's about the size of a watermelon. They said it stays good that way for about a year!
Grew up eating it. In Africa, they use the LEAF of the cassava plant to make Pondu ou saka-saka
, which is a stew. Pretty much any chicken or beef or fish stew can be turned into pondu if you add cassava leaves, pounded and cooked for at least half an hour into the stew, with cassava roots (or taro, or yams) and spices also in the stew.
I've been growing a little cassava, and you definitely get a lot of leaves! Made Pondu a few times based only on UA-cam instructions. The leaves are a little rugged, and also there are so many! More than I can possibly eat. I tried cooking it in a pressure cooker a few times, it didn't help much. I'm pretty sure this is the origin of some popular southern (USA) dishes of cooked greens, like collard greens.
Cassava roots, peels and leaves should not be consumed raw because they contain two cyanogenic glucosides, linamarin and lotaustralin.
The discoloration is caused by exposure to air. Its still good. We just boil it and dip it on sugar. Make sure you don’t boil it with peel. I grew up planting those in the Philippines. You can buy those already grated frozen from Asian stores. You can make cassava cake popular desert among Filipinos.
You can eat the leaves too and make them be your vegetables and you can mix with coconut milk too. So delicious
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I love cooking this dish I'm American woman and my sister love it I be cooking this in a few days
I've forget it, you can season them with leek. Take the green part of the leeks, clean it. Cut it up in small pieces, and then get them in a blender. Blend it until it's liquid. Keep blending and add your preferred oil slowly. It's going to get mayo consistency but green. Add salt. It's delicious with cassava.
In Sri Lanka we make Cassava leaves salad too. need to take the young leaves and put onion, G.Chilli, garlic scraped coconut and with a pestal&motar you have to grind it. then you have to put salt and lime to taste.
It's really eatable?
sounds delicious~
Cute.I grow them too and lots of other food.I make pasteles de yucca. They are 😋 yummy
Their Indonesian names are "ubi" or "singkong". Cassava leafs cooked in coconut milk and small fish is a favorite dish in Indonesia. Fermented cassava (using yeast) is called "tape" and is a popular dessert in Indonesia.
Love cassava! I start to grow some this year in January, so I look forward to harvesting them in the Fall. Your video is good, and thanks for sharing.
I don’t sell them. I just share ideas and expertise. If you want to be healthy you have to eat proper plants and vegetables. Why not grow them yourself since they are more healthy.
You can also store cassava by peeling, cut lengthways thinly about 0.5 to 1cm, spread out on clean surface leave to sun-dry - then you can store this sun dried cassava for months inside a hessian sack in a dry place.
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Great video. I just planted 2 baby sweet cassava here in Florida. Your video was the most helpful I’ve seen!
Thanks 😊
Hi, where can I find the seed or sticks to plant in Florida?
Eliane Cardoso I got mine on Etsy.
Thank you!😉
Hello, what do you do with the cassava leaves.
Once u boil it u can take it out and stir fry it with turmeric and chillis and a bit of onions. From kerala India its one of our staple foods
Yummy 🤤
Save with beef stew
In Jamaica we make small flat breads called bammy. We grate the casava, squeeze out the liquid make a kind of patty out of it and fry lightly. Then we soak it in coconut milk for 15 to 20 min and brown in a frying pan. I hope that's enough for the cyanide to disappear :-O!
Sounds delicious!
In Jamaica it is also grated and made into a kind of flat cake called bammy. This is further fried, baked or steamed and eaten mainly with fish. It is a favourite of most Jamaicans.
congrats your land is getting better and better growing beautiful yuca
I admire your lifestyle. Keep up the great content!
Simple living is the best, life seems to be more meaningful and peaceful.
Thanks for tip about cutting the two ends differently! I'm sure I've planted loads upside down! Here in Bali we plant them slanted. Like elephant grass. Don't kniw why.
Thats the off Indonesiaan farmer. In my hometown to we plant the stek slanted😀
You can plant them horizontally and just cover the entire cutting it will grow back through the soil
Thanks for your info on growing cassava. I grew up in Kenya and remember eating baked cassava 'mohogo' over coals. Where can I get branches in order to grow some myself. I live in Melbourne Australia.
- We don't cook bitter cassava - we grate and juice then wash fiber and sun dry to make flour to make bread.
Good for Garri too
Wow, this is a new one on me. Thanks for the info.
We do the same in Uganda - West Nile region. The juice out of bitter cassava is poisionous.
If you dry it does it last longer?
Do you know any video to share? I would love to learn something new with casava
Very good information. Cassava can be peeled and stored in freezer
You have some beautiful soil there, what part of the big island are you on?
Love your knowledge! Thank you for sharing
I tried it yesterday for the first time. It tastes good
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Great video Thank you ,you can also deep fry them like french fries,
also you can peal it boil it and it will split than you remove the root inside.
Hi just looked at your video and you were very informative with it. I will like to know what is the poisonous part of cassava ?
Thanks 👍
Great video, I didn't know that this Brazilian plant was known so well in other countries outside south America.
It’s not too well known here, but it’ is gaining popularity because of how great it is. Mahalo for the comment!
Rite threw polynesien it's grown..
It's very popular and common in Africa.
In the tiny province of India called Kerala, this is staple food for many. Eaten with fish curry, beef , everything literally.
It's not Brasilian its Central American , oldest known Yuca cultivation site on earth is in El Salvador where a volcano buried and preserved a Mayan village
Anywhere that calls it casava by default had it introduced to their country by whoever came up with the name "casava"
Aloha, we are on the dry side of Big Island, and came across your video as we will be getting some cassava slips to plant. Thank you for this comprehensive video. Will make sure to put plenty of mulch on top.
Love your guys videos I just found your channel last night. Was up all night watching your videos. It's good to see local people doing this kin of videos. Would love to see you guys to get with Green Garden Guy and make a video. He is da only other local UA-camr/gardener I know of. Keep it up hope you guys never stop being UA-camrs.
Mahalo 😊
What are nutrients in cassava? Are they not high in cholesterol ? Thanks.
I believe cholesterol is only found in animal products
Excellent instructional video. I stuck some in the ground July 2020. Didn't know what to do with it until now April 2021. I will harvest now. Thanks!
Thanks for the video. Try the fried patties with honey. I had them like that in Honduras, and they were great.
Good sharing ❤❤
This is cultivated in india its name hrre is tapioka we makes it different types of chips makes starch out of it boils eats with chutney or sardine curry its a staple food of kerala i have planted it in my farm iam getting 20 pounds from each plant can get harvest after 10 months its originated from africa when portughese came to india they brought it to our country
Great content! Keep on making more videos.
here in the caribbean we usually saute the cassava after boiling it with butter , garlic, green seasoning to be eaten with any meats like stew chicken, bar-b-que chicken but our favourite is with fried salted fish with a lot of veges. great job man
Hello ,I love Yuka, do delish 😋, I try it as a pancake 🥞S, they taste so good 👍😋
Thank you i will try to grow some 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍
Thank you so much for this great Infor.,
Very informative. Well done, good video.
Here in Sri Lanka we fry it like french fries or chips in deep oil.....Also we boil it and eat it with coconut...We make a curry too ..and so much more.
Thanks for sharing! Stay safe and healthy!! Is it ok to plant the yuca fruit? Thank you!
Thank you. Not sure what you mean by fruit, we haven’t tried planting the fruit just the sticks 🤷🏽♂️
Thank you for share, it's very informative.
Bro, cut it boil it for 15 minutes and sundry it. It will last for ages. When you need to eat just soak it in water overnight and cook it .
How do you store it after cooking? Fridge? Paper bag?
Thank u!!!
I too have grown it in my garden...and sweet potatos
You are such a cute homesteader!!
We can also add little salad oil n salt/sugar. It taste really good....when we cook it.
That's great, yes, but in some part of Africa, we plant the cassava sticks horizontally with the same amount of spacing. Anyway you are doing great. Yes, we boil them like how you did it. Is that the only way you eat cassava, well, here in parts of west Africa, we boil and pound it in a mortar to make fufu which eat with sauce, we grater it to eat as either steamed or roses and many other ways. Please me what other ways you use on your s'aide to eat cassava and what do you do with the leaves as well????
Very informative ! thank you for sharing
New sub here who hit the bell too! Just found your channel. That was a fantastic video covering everything we need to know about growing and eating casva. I started a food forest last year and I think your channel is going to help me a lot. Keep it going please :-) Thanks so much for putting it together. Nice photography, and I really like your lay back style too. Thanks brother. Greetings from Australia :-)
God is so good.
Great video thanks - growing these this year!
Nice cassava is a useful veg
Thank you informative video where do you purchase to get the sweet one since it's easier since it's just for one person or maybe two persons can you grow it in a a big container if if you can't grow it in the ground
Hi From my childhood memory the bitter cassava is not normally eaten but used to make starch
great video work.
Thank you so much for helping me to figure out how to determine which one is the bitter one from which one is the sweet one.
The colors of the stem dose not determined the taste of the plants, there are many varieties of cassava, I grew it and know a lot about it.
Hi Mike. Very informative video. How is cassava converted to tapioca?
Cassava is a starchy root vegetable that is commonly used to produce tapioca. Here is a general overview of the process:
Harvest and Cleaning: The mature cassava roots are harvested from the ground and thoroughly cleaned to remove dirt and outer skin.
Grating: The cleaned cassava roots are grated using a mechanical grater or manually with traditional methods. This produces a wet, fibrous pulp.
Pressing: The grated cassava pulp is then pressed to remove excess moisture. This can be done using a press or by placing the pulp in a sack and squeezing it by hand. The goal is to extract as much liquid as possible.
Settling: The liquid obtained from pressing the cassava pulp is allowed to sit and settle for a few hours. During this time, the heavier starch particles sink to the bottom, while the top layer contains water and some impurities.
Separation: The settled mixture is carefully poured off, leaving behind the starchy sediment at the bottom. This sediment is the raw cassava starch.
Drying: The extracted cassava starch is spread out on flat surfaces, such as trays or mats, to dry. Traditionally, this is done under the sun, but commercial production may use mechanical dryers. The starch is dried until it becomes brittle and breaks easily.
Milling: Once fully dried, the cassava starch is milled into a fine powder. This milling process helps break down any remaining lumps and ensures a consistent texture.
Sieving: The milled cassava starch is sieved to remove any coarse particles and achieve a smooth tapioca flour.
Bagging and Packaging: The final tapioca flour is collected, bagged, and packaged for distribution and sale. It is now ready to be used in various culinary applications.
It's important to note that the above process is a general overview, and variations may exist depending on the specific production methods used. Additionally, tapioca pearls, which are commonly used in desserts and bubble tea, undergo additional processing steps involving shaping and cooking before they become the familiar translucent balls.
I would love to get some of your cassava branches to plant “sweet cassava”
That's one of my dad's favourite food
It's leaves ( young shoots ) are edible too! You could cook them with coconut milk. Delicious!
I’ve heard the leave contain even higher amounts of cyanid, but I guess you can cook it out?
Its so beautiful ❤️
I live in the UK and eating casava chips from some Indian shop right now! :)
I’m American and didn’t know another staple crop like cassava existed! Thanks for this informative video, now I definitely gotta try it!
Hello, thanks for the video, I would love to plant yuccas in my backyard. But I can't find anyone who sells cassava cuttings to plant or seeds. I live in USA, California.
You can dry cassava and make cassava powder.
You can leave cassava in water for few days to remove cyanide. You can cooked the. Or let it became soft and make some cake.
Thanks 👍
I bought some cassava at the grocery store. It’s covered in that wax. I want to plant it and start growing it…..any advice?? I’ve been very successful with ginger, turmeric, sweet potatoes, etc.
Caribbean culture uses cassava a lot. We call it yuca. Lots of great recipes coming out of the Caribbean for yuca
Also, no need to remove the inside piece. After boiling, it comes out way easier
Nice video, I would have liked to hear something about the nutrition of cassava, in particular if it has resistant starch like potato.
Yeah that would be useful information. We dont know much of the specific nutritional information but I could imagine that it is a resistant starch. I'm sure the internet has some info on that 🙂
Hello, will a cassava root from the shop sprout and make a stem? So i can then cut the stem
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Hi, you can saute it with butter it taste nice that way
Wow Mike. Cassava Cake is so yummy. Sometimes I buy cassava, but when I cut it it’s already blackish inside coz they were transported from Mexico.