COPPERCassava pudding recipe
Grated, squeezed cassava bound with coconut milk and baked for hours in banana leaves until it sets into a dense, savoury cake.
Ingredients
- 1400 g cassava
- 450 g white sweet potato
- 500 ml coconut milk
- 4 banana leaves
How to make Cassava pudding
- Peel 1.4 kg of cassava, cut it into large chunks and cut out the woody cord in the centre.
- Finely grate the cassava, then peel and grate 450 g of white sweet potato into the same bowl.
- Squeeze the gratings hard in a cloth over a bowl to remove the juice; after 15 to 30 minutes, pour off the liquid and return the white starch that has settled at the bottom to the gratings.
- Stir in 400 to 500 ml of coconut milk a little at a time until the mixture has the texture of thick mashed potatoes.
- Soften banana leaves over a flame, line a baking dish with them in a cross, spread in the mixture, fold the leaves over and cover tightly.
- Bake at 175 °C for about 3 hours 30 minutes, until the edges brown; in the Solomon Islands it bakes all afternoon in a motu, an earth oven of hot stones and leaves.
- Let it cool completely, as it is wobbly when hot and firms up as it cools, then cut into squares.
What is Cassava pudding?
Cassava pudding is a traditional dish from Solomon Islands, baked in the oven, and takes about 5 hours and 30 minutes from start to finish. It is built around cassava, coconut milk and white sweet potato. The recipe below uses 4 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Cassava pudding take?
At 330 minutes it is slower than 78% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 15 dishes built on cassava. The method runs to 7 steps, the longest being 30 minutes.
Any tips for making Cassava pudding?
Squeeze the gratings hard, then return the starch that settles at the bottom of the juice; let the pudding cool completely before cutting, as it firms up.
How Cassava pudding compares
White sweet potato appears in no other dish in the atlas.
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