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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

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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

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Question from vanessa boyd
Can you use frozen Cassava - how would you treat this in the recipe. Presumably just grate or do you need to drain of water?
Eugenio Zafra
from Philippines

Yes. You can use frozen cassava. However you can also use cassava flour and mix with prawn and fry like fritters.

from France

If it's fresh cassava paste, it must be thawed, squeezed to remove the water, and used in the recipe. If it's cassava in pieces, thaw it, put it through a food processor to obtain a paste that you press to remove the water and use it in the recipe.

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