Well also Monsanto create suicide crops to kill off native crops so they’re dependent on their fertilizers and seeds. So selling off native crops isn’t the only way corporations control native crop production
I’m Puerto Rican and I went to the grocery store to buy yucca to make for dinner, and a Nigerian woman came up to me and asked me how I would prepare the dish. She told me she had never heard it prepared this way before, and explained to me how she made fufu from scratch with cassava (yucca). It’s such a beautiful thing to learn just how closely related we all are to one another. If we could all have one big feast together, the world would be a much more peaceful place.
I definitely agree food can bring people together, just add different cultures and ask them to bring their best dish OMGoodness it'll be a huge buffet. oh and let's not forget the desserts smh
@@LovelyPeace-si7jp Food didn't bring together the Hutus and the Tutsis. Food doesn't really bring anybody "together"in a sincere way. It's a necessity
Its a great alternative to rice or wheat plus African countries have great weather to harvest casava. Rice or weat can be labor intensive. Casava, once harvest has a down side., it can quickly get fongus but fear not. You can shower the root with melted candle wax and it will last longer.
Proudly Nigerian. I enjoy growing cassava in my village and watch them grow into large tubers. The process of making rich foods is so satisfying. God bless these workers for a job well done.
@@zizi-yo Just enjoy talking to people from different parts of the world. Sending stuff to them when I can. Sorry of that seems weird. Ive met friends from all over the world online. Just enjoy pictures from other countries. Nothing malicious.
I'm costa rican and i always ate a lot of yucca root growing up. My favorite way to prepare it is by cutting it into fries and deep frying it. Its so good and soft inside, 10/10 recommend.
This is a staple in our Cuban-American lives. Boiled yuca with mojo (garlic,salt,olive oil, sour orange,chicharron) poured over. Fried yuca spears; fried yuca chips; yuca in our beans and stews. Also, we make Fufu as well but from mashed plantains. Slaves in Cuba shaped our country and our cuisine. ❤
Yet not once he said it was from Africa… you wanna make a point without reading. Africans can thank natives, us Cubans can thank Africans. That’s how it works.
@MrAmisto bruh why you coming at him like that just use Google and find out. For Example mexican food is regarded as great but is juts a remix of tortilla frijoles and meat. Taco 🌮 frijoles and meat in a folded tortilla Burrito 🌯 frijoles and meat wrapped in a tortilla LOL even the emojis look the same Can yall STFU and stop replying without reading the comment was a sarcastic one I know faking Mexican food is more than tacos.
Fried yuka is really similar to potatoes, which is super great for people who love potatoes but can't eat nightshades! Edit: dang 1.6k likes? Thanks! Omg 15k holy crap y'all I was just having fun sharing info about food haha. Thanks!
@@amintiri2503 Sorry, I generalized for the joke and forgot about good cuisines like Hungarian, Spanish and Italian (among others). Still wonder how do English and German people survive
I ate that at a Jamaican restaurant. Delicious! I love eating food from every culture I can. 98% of the time I love the dishes. I also enjoy learning different ways to cook, and make some amazing new dishes, garden, making clothes, raising children and animals, even different and sometimes easier ways to clean different things. I try to learn from everyone I meet. The stories I hear about life are a huge bonus. 🥰 Love your neighbors and enjoy the richness in life! Peace and Grace be upon you all ❤️🕯️💖🕊️🙏🏿🙏🙏🏽🕊️🕯️🗝️
@@huangsam00 I love people that are nice and gracious enough to talk to me and teach me about their life and culture. Most people are a delight to talk to and learn from. Bad and evil people I try to avoid, but I have run into a few in my 6+ decades. Peace and Grace be upon you and your family. 🥰🕯️🎚️ 🕊️🙏🏿🙏🙏🏽🕊️💓
In Brazil we are also crazy about Kassava! You can process it in dozens of ways and prepare food with its broth, flours, leaves and the root itself. A lot of our typical Brazilian dishes use some form of Kassava, which was also the main source of food for many ancient indigenous tribes. There are a few indigenous folklore legends about how the plant came to exist that are really beautiful ❤ love Kassava
Same in Puerto Rico. Our Taínos bread was called Cassabe. Nowadays we call the root: yuca😋. Your Brazilian Pāo de queijo is freaking good, but I failed trying to make them 😭. I'll try again once my trauma has faded.
Fufu is good, it’s like sticky mashed potatoes. I went to my friends home and his mom made a full spread of stuff I’d never tried before and it was great.
That wasn't fufu. I don't know who the he'll started that fufu trend but they really spread a lot of misinformation. The one you're talking about is actually called called pounded yam because it is made by pounding yam abd has a mash potato like taste abd consistency. We have one that is ACTUALLY called fufu and so far none of the ppl in videos I've seen of the trend has actually eaten it.
@@deanna.radiantit has a sweet fermented-ish flavour, or at least that's how I can describe it. Its really good. Also try garri(cassava flakes) with peanuts while youre at it.
As a Nigerian-American, the Nigerian half of me is proud of you for being proud of Nigeria's pride in Nigeria and my American half is proud of Nigeria for your pride in Nigeria as an American girl who's proud of Nigeria 🇳🇬🫱🏿🫲🏽🇺🇲
@@bwackbeedows3629did u grow up in Nigeria here and move to America or you were born in America I would like to see what you look like if you don’t mind, I’ve seen lots of black Americans who claim they are nigerian but looks nothing like Nigerians
@@Mazoncodm Oh I'm Black. I'm Nigerian by blood on both sides, but I've only recently started connecting with my heritage. My parents act Black-American, so that's what I've embraced for most of my life.
@@theblackgods4699there are some foods native to Puerto Rico eaten today such as pasteles for example. But yuca is native to South América and the Taínos originally migrated to Puerto Rico from South América so yuca found its way to Puerto Rico like that as a native food of the original people of Puerto Rico. For the people, most of the ancestry of Puerto Ricans is foreign however there is some small amount of Taíno ancestry in the population.
I'm from Trinidad and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Cassava/Yuka. Garlic butter cassava with stew chicken, boil n fry cassava with saltfish, cassava cooked in coconut milk with salted pork, cassava chips, cassava fries, cassava roti (yes, you can make roti from it.)
We have lots of Nigerian restaurants here in South Africa, so I had the pleasure of eating casava a few times with spiced beef stew. I really loved it. It is similar to maize meal (our staple food in SA). 👌👌🇿🇦🇿🇦
I love yuca. My grandma put it to beef soup and sometimes she boiled and fry. Delicious I could it everyday instead of potatoes. But now I live in Canada and is very expensive.
Well I didn’t know we have our nigerian food over there I know this is usually a competition between Nigeria and Ghana but Nigeria jollof rice is the best 😅😅 If u like fufu(cassava) you should try AMala it’s made with yam flour, or try pounded yam this is the GOAT of Nigeria dishes nothing beats pounded yam
To be fair there are different types, ie you can get fufu made from plantain, the colour is slightly different but it’s a lil sweeter. I love that POC eat so much of the same food but prepare it in different ways but it always tastes good!!!!
@@RO-B96fufu that are not made from cassava are not called fufu in Nigeria. They all have different names but we just call all of them fufu to foreigners.
In Nicaragua one of our traditional meals is called Vigoron it consists of a cabbage salad, fried pork rinds and boiled YUCA it’s so yummy, Peruvian chicken with fried yuca is amazing too!
My Mom’s family of 10 siblings grew up with this in the Philippines. Living in Canada I still buy this to use in dishes. Reminds me of my Mom, Grandma and relatives. Who I miss dearly every single day!!! luv you Momma! 🙏🏻🧘🏻♂️💜
You forgot to mention that yuca or casava is originally from the Americas, and has been a staple food in many amerindian cultures for thousands of years. During the 16th century, it was exported to Africa and the rest of the world through commercial trade. In Puerto Rico, yuca is an essential ingredient in our delicious cuisine. 🇵🇷🍽️😋
What happened was a bunch of European settlers probably setup shop nearby and started doing what the did best. Farming. Then a story that always repeats itself, the locals got mad and killed the farmers, ate up all the food and then had a huge population die off from starvation.
It’s from India ! We eat this from centuries and we use it as an auspicious offering to our deity in festival times. There are stories ( folklore told from generations to generations as story) that during one of the biggest famine in India this was the only staple food used by people and King n Queen made sure enough is provided from neighbouring villages for the entire population. These stories are of years B.C !!
I had no idea that yucca or casava would be similar to mashed potatoes! Now I would be tempted to try it... As fufu tho , i dont think i would want to bite it and swallow it with soup. Seems doughy... But I've not seen how Nigeria makes their fufu.. I am familiar with fufu made in Ghana with Plantain and casava. I dont think Ghana soaks it first... Just wash, peeled (no purple showing) cut then cooked before being pounded with plaintain.
You don’t need to soak Cassava to make it edible, it can be eaten after it is peeled and cooked. Boiling, deep frying, baking, etc. it’s a wonderful vegetable and great in many ways
@@GelloWello If someone has the bitter variety of cassava and was told what you said they would get sick. The method you describe is only for the sweet variety which is less toxic than the bitter variety. Original comment is for bitter variety processing.
unfortunately, its physically impossible. it would require a complete rewriting of history which is at the base of all cultures. Humans did not evolve to care about more than 250 people at one time, and that includes vague acquaintances. But bigger communities are needed to produce the amenities we are so used to, and need... So it is only possible in small communities, that either lack the amenities or rely on external bigger communities for them
@@Apostate_ofmind well that's a downright lie unless you can back up your claim. I for one, care deeply about all the world's children. Personally? Not as much, it would destroy me emotionally, but in a semi detached way, I care as much as my heart can take
My dad had a friend who imigrated from Africa to the united states, and we would always have fufu when we went over for dinner. I loved it and it is always a fond to look back on those memories.
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 I'm not sure which part of Africa he was from. I was like 10 or 11 at the time. Details like that get lost over the years for me now that I'm older
@@Tu51ndBl4d3what are you saying. Fufu is what Nigerians call it. But it is also eaten in other African countries. They probably have a different name for it, and different variations.
@@I.am.hooked If you can't read, don't engage with the internet *di*t. Fufu originates from Akans in modern Ghana and spread outward to certain parts of only west africa and a little bit of congo. No one else eats fufu.
I grew up eating cassava bread in Venezuela and love the very particular flavor- I never knew fufu was made from the same thing!! Much love to Nigeria!
@three7142 I'm curious myself too, I have islander friends who have fed me cream of wheat, it was delicious, so I'm kinda on a mini adventure to find this fufu stuff.
Fufu is a Ghanaian food. Other countries have different types of swallow food that may look similar to fufu but it’s not fufu . Just like the world view jollof rice as Nigerian food even though it come from Senegal, the way Senegal makes there jollof rice isn’t the same as Nigerian or Cameroon. there’s no different type of fufu. Fufu is one thing. Fufu is a type of swallow food. It’s usually a soft food that you can use stew or soup with. Not all Every swallow food isn’t fufu but fufu is a swallow food. The one that you see on the screen isn’t fufu. It’s similar to Ghana banku. The word fufu is so popularized that some other countries just use the word fufu to call their swallow food. But in Ghana there is Omo Tuo / Rice balls. Omo tuo has over the years been branded as a Sunday special meal to be eaten mostly at local food chop bars after or before church service. ... Eba. ... Tuo Zaafi. ... Banku. ... Sorghum Banku. ... Kokonte. ... Akple. They all look similar to fufu but it’s not fufu. That’s like calling all rice food the same as fried rice.
In Paraguay and surrounding countries, Yuca (we called it Mandioca) is the main ingredient in most of our dishes. Nice to learn that Yuca is a staple on the other side of the Atlantic too.
Probably due to the spanish and portuguese colonization. I didn't know before but chili, cassava and tomatoes are native from latin america. The world in the end is just one! 👏
It is amazing what people do and how they create their food I tell you learning is so important learning history and different cultures on what people have to eat to survive and how they prepare it😊😊😊😊
@@fredajohnson7393 where are you from? tapioca is a dish originaly from the brazilian indigenous people, but have been growing popular worldwide recently
@ianbruscky the returnee slaves called Saro, more popularly known as the Brazilian Quarters in Nigeria made food like Tapioca and Frejohn popular in Nigeria.
Wow fufu looks delicious! I’m Salvadorean, we eat Yucca in sopa de rez (beef stew) and also with chicharrones and curtido (pickled cabbage). I would love to try all of the different ways people mentioned in the comments 😊.
Indias southern states , especially in Kerala we like Tapioca / Cassava dishes and enjoy it with fish and meat curry Also we make tapioca Chips and Biriyani with it .
Being Cuban and seeing people enjoy yucca makes me so happy. We cook it with garlic, onions, and salt and it’s one of my favorite dishes. I can’t wait to try it as fufu
In Kerala, India 🇮🇳 we cut into pieces, add water, little turmeric powder, cut few green chillies and boil them. Then mash it and have with beef curry or chicken curry or fish curry. It is very 😋
Fried yuka is one of my favourite things to eat. I always ate it at this one restaurant back home along with yellow rice and chicken. Dip it in some pink sauce (not the internet trend one, its a mix of mayo and ketchup mostly), absolutely delicious.
Cassava is so underrated! Fried garlic-flavoured cassava is so yummy! My go-to snack when I go to a fritters stall, along with fried tempe of course...my favorite!
It can also found in the Caribbean where they use it to make a flatbread call (bammy) Bammy is made from bitter cassava (also called yuca and manioc in other American cultures). Traditionally, the cassava is grated and placed in a press bag (woven with thatch leaves) and placed in an outdoor press where heavy stones are loaded on or can be use as starch for ironing the cloth.
We here in Fiji love cassava.Cassava is the main dish I'm many households. Cassava is mostly consumed boiled,baked underground the soil with hot stones called lovo,my favorite..maked curry ,fried chips style or Masala and spicy,grated and made vakalolo, cassava cake,cassava strips and many more
YUKA /Cassava is Native to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 South America and the Caribbean Islands. That was the main staple of the Taino diet. The Tainos made Cassava bread. Nowadays we make YUKA-Tostones fried, boiled or in Mofongo, just like the plátano Mofongo. Happy to know that YUKA is now a staple in Africa’s Cuisine. Bendiciones from a Puerto Rican in NYC.
Dont believe the comments Yuca is American continent food not african. You are correct is a carribbean and some areas of Central and south América. I study Culinary arts and its shown where they are native from.
I was eating with Africans twice.. They took me to eat traditional food from Nigeria.. We had fufu.. And it was amazing.. I loved it and I'd like to get it again... Only problem.. The rest of the food was quite spicy. It was too much for me.. But not all food was too spicy so I hope I can have it again 😊
I've been eating this stuff since I was a little kid, and it's so underrated . In El Salvador, we call it the cousin of the potato who never made it 😂 try it fried or boiled in soups 🍲
Amazing. It's a Brazil traditional food, from original people and is all around the world now. I can't imagine how it's cooked abroad, but Looks like delicious
The peeled starchy root is delicious boiled, then cut and fried or mashed. Get them in many Hispanic or Asian markets. They're also in regular grocer's freezers.
I in 1999 went to Ghana Africa and had the opportunity to make FuFu. Pounding it for hours. However 🤔 I refused to eat it and was laughed at by my pastor and family. He was dipping it into some type of tomato soup. I was afraid of eating because of a Montezuma's revenge syndrome. I did end up getting sick from eating rice and Hot 🔥 peppers up in the Northern region. I love Africa! Beautiful people ❤!
Well it was brought in by Arawak people of the Caribbean during colonization, and taught how to be sustainable. Nigeria was never colonized so they held on to the learnings from the Native Americans, the rest of Africa was not so lucky.
Cassava can be eaten fried or boiled. It is versatile. It can replace potaoes in stews and soups. I would love to taste it as fufu. The best way for anyone in the US to try it is fried like dinner fries.
I always think of the first peoples that cultivated this in the Caribbean…they must have been so happy when that first harvest came in…cassava is life..
@@quetzelmedina3 i know…read carefully before you project and presume, I am keenly aware that travelers brought cassava to the Caribbean as it it not native…therefore, I am referring to the people that traveled and brought it over to the Caribbean with the high hopes that it would bear fruit…thus: I think fondly of those first peoples that cultivated this is in the Caribbean… they must have been so happy when that first harvest came in… and since you clearly need more explanation, I am specifically referring to African natives that brought it and were likely the ones to encourage its growth and adaptation to Caribbean soil.
The origin of cassava is Brazil and south america and it was taken to Africa by the Portuguese. We eat a lot and the name of the Cassava here is Mandioca. We eat Mandioca cooked with honey or butter accompanied by meat. We also have tapioca, a Mandioca pasta that we eat with everything. I would love to try Fufu.
