Hello good people of Hive, I hope everyone is having a good time. It is a privilege to post in this community once again and this time I will like to share the process in getting garri from cassava. Garri is very common in Nigeria and it consumption in preparing meal is more than any other food. It is known as a saviour in sustaining hunger as it is easier to serve as food without preparing.
However things have changed now as the price of garri is now expensive compared to few years back when it was cheaper. I will like to share the process and stages one will go through before the garri which is also known as cassava flakes can be gotten.
The first step needed in the process of getting your garri is to get your cassava first where you will have to remove the peels with a knife.
The peels needs to be removed neatly to avoid sand and dirts from entering and while this needs to be very neat is that after the whole cassava have been peeled off, it will then need a grinding machine to grind it before another process will take place.
After grinding the cassava, the next thing needed to do is to put the grinded cassava in a sack and then tie it to a strong wood so that the water in it can come out. However there are machine now that can make that more easier in squeezing out the water which probably will be the next thing I will try to get.
The grinded cassava needs to dry very well before it will get to the next stage for frying and this will take like two days before getting very dry.
When it have dry properly, the frying process will then take place but then a bamboo woven is needed to remove shafts from the grinded cassava so as it will be smooth when frying.
When frying it now depends on which colour you want because we have two colours which is white and yellow. The yellow garri can only be gotten when you mix little oil to it when frying but the white garri is natural as nothing is needed to add only just to fry.
I prepared the yellow garri where I mix little oil to it. Though this is a personal choice for consumption and some people prefer white which is also vice versa.
That's all for the process in getting your garri as this is ready for consumption. Garri is used in making eba which is used in eating so many delicious soup that you really don't need to missed out.