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Tapioca pancakes
Beiju (or Tapioca)
Preparation info
- Serves
6
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 2011
For centuries, native Brazilians have made flour from cassava root. It comes in three types: plain, sweet and sour. The latter is used to make a thin, chewy pancake, called beiju in the north of the country, and tapioca in the south.
Ingredients
Method
1 Put the cassava starch in a bowl and drizzle half the water over it. Use your hands to mix, breaking up any large clumps. Gradually add the rest of the water, mixing in the same way.
2 Push the mixture, a little at a time, through a sieve (strainer). The resulting mixtur