Cassava rolls wrapped with banana leaves

Cooking is fun especially when we tend to try different ways of cooking for a food.

Cassava is a root vegetable or tuber that is starchy. It can be cooked in different ways from boiling, steaming, frying and even baking. It's parts can be cook in different ways too because it leaves can be cook as vegetable too.

Starch can also be made from it that's why we have some cassava starch in the market.

One time, we had a great afternoon in the garden because we harvested bananas and cassava.

My son requested to cook something out of cassava but what he requested takes long time before we could eat and taste it. So I suggests that we will cook budbod, suman or alupi (a different names from different dialects of Philippines). Every Filipino for sure knows about it.

So for everyone to understand I will just call or name this as CASSAVA ROLLS WRAPPED WITH BANANA LEAVES.

Budbod as we locally call it is one of the Filipino delicacies. This is perfect for merienda and this is also perfect to be paired with your morning coffee, tea or chocolate drink.

There are different ingredients being used in cooking it depending on your preferences but the common ingredients are cassava and sugar.

For today's blog I will share to you what we used and how we cooked it. Without further ado, read on.

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INGREDIENTS

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Cassava tuber (So sorry, I really forgot to weigh it because we are so excited to cook it)

4 tablespoons cassava (we just estimate it depending on our cassava)

1 can evaporated milk (Coconut milk is the original ingredient)

Dark chocolate chips

Young banana leaves to be used as wrapper

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PROCEDURE

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Step 1. Peel and wash cassava.

Step 2. Grate the cassava. We just use manual grater made from a thin sheet. Extra careful is needed so your hands won't get into the grater and you won't accidentally grate your own hands.

Step 3. Remove it's juice. We just use clean fabric net to remove the juice. We put the grated cassava in the fabric and then press it until the cassava juice was removed.

It looks like this after removing it's juice.

Step 4.Break those cassava being formed through pressing and make them free from sticking with each other.

Step 5. You can now add the brown sugar. I didn't give measurement because we just estimate the sugar depending on our cassava. You can also add more sugar if you life it more sweeter. It will depend on your own sweetness preference.

Step 6. We are supposed to add coconut milk BUT we don't have it. So, instead of coconut milk, we try to experiment by using one can evaporated milk. This is used to make the cassava mixture a little bit wet.

Mix them well and our cassava, sugar and evaporated milk will be ready for wrapping. Set aside it first while we prepare our young banana leaves for wrapping.

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How to prepare the young banana leaves for wrapping?

We get young banana leaves. We remove it from it's stalk. Then, cut them according to the desired size you want. We cut it about six inches wide.

We then prepare a boiled water.

Dip the cut banana leaves in the boiling or hot water for a few seconds until the leaves become tender and it won't be cut when we fold it.

Dry the banana leaves using a dry cloth and it will be ready for wrapping.

Now let's make cassava rolls and wrap it with banana leaves.

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Step 7. Put atleast two tablespoons of cassava mixture on the banana leaf. Spread it enough that we can still fold the banana leaves in both ends.

Step 8. We put four to five dark chocolate chips in the middle that serves as filling and other additional ingredients.

It wasn't in the original plan but remembering those dark chocolate chips given by my younger brother we try to add some.

Step 9. Roll the cassava on the banana leaf until it reaches to the bottom.

Fold both end enough that it won't spread again.

As usual my son is always curious about something. He wanted to try to roll the cassava so his father taught him how to do it.

Until he try to roll the cassava by himself and he is so happy that he did it and finished one roll with the help of his father.

Step 10. We get two of them and tie their both ends to avoid water for getting in and then we put it in the casserole. Put water, atleast 1/2 or 3/4 of the casserole.

Step 11. Boil them for 40-45 minutes until it is tender.

At last, our CASSAVA ROLLS WRAPPED WITH BANANA LEAVES are now ready to be served.

Let's eat.

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Thank you so much for reading. I hope you learn this way of cooking cassava. If you like this recipe don't forget to reblog for your friends to know about it too. Your upvote is very much appreciated too. Also, feel free to follow for more content similar to this. Thank you once again and see you in my next blog.

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