Hello to everyone on this wonderful platform, I feel so delighted to be here again and this time I will love to share something interesting with you.
So for this contest, I will be writing on two items on the week2 Savory list which are CASSAVA and PEANUTS. Let’s talk briefly about the Cassava is botanically called manihot esculenta and is a calorie-rich crop that contains a lot of vital vitamins and carbohydrates. It could be used in various ways, it could be dried under the sun and used for cassava flour, it could be processed and used for the production of Garri, it could also be turn on heat to get fufu used specially to eat soup in Africa. Most specifically, cassava can be used to make Tapioca which is what I am writing on today. This multi-purpose crop is used planted with stem and it could also be counted among the tuber crops.
On the other hand, groundnuts are sometime, are referred to as peanuts which are an excellent plant-based source of vitamins and plants compound, they could be useful as part of weight loss diet recipes and may reduce the risk of heart attack. These fat containing nuts, could be very nice when eaten with Tapioca and used to sip Garri.
HOW TO PREPARE TAPIOCA
First after harvesting your cassava tubers from your farm or garden, peel it (take off the brown skin to reveal the white part) using a knife.
Wash the peeled cassava neatly to avoid sand, cut them into smaller parts, place the clean peeled cassava into a clean pot then set it to cook on fire.
The cooking time may take up to half an hour depending on the level of the heat.
When it comes to a boil and it get partially soft (please not it mustn’t be too soft) sieve it and allow the cassava to cool off a bit then divide them into slim slices.
When you’re done dividing them, you soak it in water and allow it overnight. In my place, we usually don’t eat it onj that day because we grew to hear from our grandparents that it could make us dizzy depending on the species of cassava.
It won’t be so delicious to eat Tapioca alone so I added peeled groundnuts and trust me; the taste is extraordinary and yummy.
I hope you found this very interesting and useful. I urge you to give this a try and let me know what you think about this recipe in the comment section.
I would also love to invite my friends 
