Nice.
I've never made them but want to.
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I'll send you the recipe. They were really easy and really fun! A oven roasted a couple to make tortilla chips which were muy rica
Please do!
I started growing cassava this year as a support plant for my fruit trees. I consequently looked up what to do with the tubers and one of them was making tortillas/wraps with the boiled mashed cassava.
I still haven't found the courage to harvest & cook any yet. I think making corn/wheat tortillas will inspire me though. I can't really compare cassava tortillas if I've never made grain tortillas.
This sounds like an amazing project!!! I wonder if I can get cassava to grow down here. Maybe in the green house.
It grows in Africa so I'm pretty sure it will grow where you are.
I can bring some cuttings for T-bone to take back, if you like.
It climates where they get frosts/snow, they collect the thick stems after harvest and store them in hay over winter.
They then plant the cuttings come spring.
Yesterday I harvested a plant & tried to make tortillas.
It was the first time I'd harvest a cassava plant to eat even though I've technically had it growing for 5 years. My original plant was neglected & got shaded out by weeds but was good for cuttings.
The tortillas were a failure. They tasted like potato pancakes. I'm not sure if it was because I harvested it before the tubers had gotten really fat or if I didn't boil it long enough to make it soft.
Harvesting was easy because the soil was soft & sandy. They peeled really quickly & easily. After cooking 2 tortillas I abandoned that & added the mash to a soupy osso buco I had made. I'd only added salt to the water I'd boiled it in but the mash tasted almost cheesy. It's very tasty, very much like potato with more flavour & with a gloopy texture.
I rate cassava highly as a low maintenance starchy survival food. Going to be growing a lot of this in the future.
Sounds like winning and learning in the same activity. 👊🏼
I wonder if there are any South America Nostr folk who might have some insight into the cooking of cassava tortillas
#hola
Also I quite potato pancakes 😋
Yeah - they were eaten, it was just a pain to roll them out.
They didn't develop a glutinous texture to bind them together. Sticky but not glutinous. I'll have another shot when they're a bit bigger.
It's definitely worth growing the cassava though. Potatoes don't do well in the heat/humidity here. I've given up on potatoes.