This looks just how our indigenous people 🇧🇷 use to extract tapioca (the starch) and tucupi (the yellow fermented liquid) from Manihot esculenta (Mandioca, Macaxeira, Yuca, Cassava) With the tapioca we tend make a thousand different dishes in Brazil. From cheese breads to tacacá soup.
Just guessing here... If you were to grow your own sweet potatoes for this, the yield might be higher if you didn't cure the roots. Curing converts some of the starch to sugar, giving a sweeter potato for eating, but converting insoluble starch into sugar that would go away in the rinse process.
Hey Elaine, nice to hear your voice :-) Seriously, I think you should do that for the more complex recipes more often. It really helps to understand things better.
I've adapted this method now to making hash browns with regular potatoes. Not only is it less wasteful than simply draining off the "potato water", but the hash browns cook much better because of the more thorough starch removal.
Wow! That's a lot of work to make potato starch, but I really appreciate the detailed instructions in case I ever need to make some. Thank you for an excellent video!
I have been wanting to make this for other stuff just want to please ask if i want to turn it into dough for making noodles do i add corn starch to it and cold water please. Also can i dry with normal air ans leave it out till i get the thick white block powder please. Is then called lotus powder or is different Thank you luv ur method
There are two ways of using the residue. One is the water alone, the solid waste, or both mixed together. They are fibrous, add mass to your food,free of starch,do good for diabetics. Put all of them together, add grated green chillies,ginger, little semolina,salt, finely chopped shallots, allow to rest. It has to be a thick pancake batter like consistency. If not add wheat flour .A dash of yoghurt adds natural fermentation. You can make round pan cakes on a hot tawa,with seasame oil around it,be gentle. 2. To this mix of solid and liquid residue, allow it to cook on thick bottomed vessel, on a slow fire to allow it to thicken. You can add teracle of palm sugar or crystal sugar, season it with dry ginger powder,cardamom, and roasted cummin powder. Add a cup of coconut milk ,simmer and remove. A healthy drink.
