Cassava and Prawn Fritters

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Preparation info
  • For

    6

    people (around 30 fritters)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 5

Appears in
Saka Saka: Adventures in African cooking, south of the Sahara

By Anto Cocagne and Aline Princet

Published 2022

  • About

Ingredients

  • 3 large cassava tubers, about 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz)

Method

Preparation

Peel the cassava. Remove the wooden stem in the middle, then grate with a fine grater to get thin strands of cassava.

Place the grated cassava pulp in a clean tea towel and press firmly to remove the liquid.

Finely chop the herbs.

Clean and shell the prawns, then cut into small pieces.

In a bowl, mix the cassava pulp, eggs, prawns, herbs and