Everything you need to know about Cassava

Some varieties of cassava may require different methods of preparation for human consumption, such as grating, soaking, fermenting. Please carefully research the variety you have so you can properly prepare it. Undercooked or cassava can be deadly.
Aloha! In this video I teach you everything i know about growing, harvesting, and cooking cassava. It is an amazing plant that is very easy to grow, and produces lots of food to help achieve food sovereignty for you and your family. It is a staple in our garden! Hope this video inspires you to grow cassava because most importantly it is delicious! Other names for Cassava include Yuca and Tapioca. Mahalo for watching and have a great day!
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[@ramirlopez1396]

I grew up in the Philippines and use to have this root crop for food at times when rice was expensive and scarce. We usually boil them and make cassava cake out of the grated fresh cassava. Reminds me of my country life in the boondocks. Thank you for the video. And by the way, our method of planting cassava sticks is dig 5 inches on the ground and lay the stick horizontally and cover the whole thing with soil. This way all the stick will produce tubers for more harvest and you don't need to worry which one is the bottom or top part. You earn one subscriber.

[@deedahl2866]

I saw some guys in Ghana that actually cut off the nodes and plant them, and it grows in about 5 months!

[@djonalexander3628]

So you don't need to stick the bottom part into the soil? Wow amazing technique👏

[@nathanrogers8713]

My wife is from West Africa and cassava is a primary food source for them. There are other preservation methods that work well. They shred, press, and dry it. The resulting gari is shelf stable for years. It is used as a primary, inexpensive starch in their diets. Lot of uses for it too. It can also be powdered after drying for use in a dish called fufu. Both of the dried forms will keep for years with no spoilage and are very easy to make.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Nice! It is such a great crop! Thanks for the info.

[@lexusolution]

dude you are so calm and cool

[@ilianakunaqoro230]

Im from fiji.. peel it.. wash with properly with water. Potion it in ziplock bag nd freeze kt.. it will last for a year

[@michaelrichard4173]

Will it have the same taste? When cooking it

[@jackieculpepper6413]

I had never heard of cassava until my sponsored child in Uganda mentioned it. I watched your video and now I can write my child and tell her! Thank you-very informing video!

[@FreyaKennafr]

My Grandmother used to make so many different things out of yuca. From boiled with vinegar to yummy desserts. I miss my Great Grandma no one in the family truly cooks like she did.

[@estheroppong4782]

If you want the best result for cooking your cassava always cover it with less water and add salt I’m a Ghanaian and cassava is one of our major foods. Thank you.

[@victoriaaikins6588]

You are spot on Esther. 👍😘

[@ZZ90755]

You are correct I grew up in Africa

[@franromany8096]

Thank you.. it's a staple here in trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

[@abdulrazakmoghul7777]

Where do I get this vegetable in mumbai

[@abdulrazakmoghul7777]

Do you know Indian name of this vegetable

[@annacompan7219]

Waoo. I am from Africa and we grow cassava. I can tell you that one really produced a good harvest

[@igordinis783]

In Mozambique eat the leaves and also the roots. The leaves we mash with garlic and then we cook with coconut milk mixed with blended peanuts, it is absolutely delicious we called Matapa.

[@wyvernofhefei8712]

Yeah that tastes great. In Indonesia, we also consume the leaves. Sometimes we make dish from cassava leaves, mung bean sprouts, basil leaves mixed with shredded coconut. We call the dish "Urap".

[@agnesmahlakoane6317]

Igor. How are you. I am in South Africa. I would like to plant cassava. Can you help me get some sticks?

[@santhoshkumar-vd7jo]

Cassava roots, peels and leaves should not be consumed raw because they contain two cyanogenic glucosides, linamarin and lotaustralin.

[@kouranko]

I live in west Africa and I was growing cassava, the women cook the leaves and make a sort of plasas with it. My neighbor was using my leaves for the year it was growing! So it was constantly providing food.

[@lisettesyummygarden2299]

You can boil with pink salt and garlic cloves till tender. Then put infused garlic olive oil and a tad of lemon.I take the center woody part after boiling.

[@whothecapfits]

In Jamaica we call them bitter and sweet cassava, just as you mentioned. The bitter cassava is used to make bammy, which is a flat bread mostly eaten with fish, etc. The sweet cassava is boiled and eaten just as you did, but we mostly prefer the bammy. Cassava is the most starchy food I know when boiled. So much starch that when I was a child, I remember the starch being extracted and used to starch clothes. Probably still done in parts of the island.

[@lifeiswargodisall7415]

Thanks for your informative video. Cassava is much better than every grain (product)!! My father's been eating cassava for 105 yrs, and he's still alive and strong. I've been eating cassava since infancy, and I'm healthier than ever! Unfortunately, there are lots and lots of misinformation about cassava. But fortunately, I know cassava very well. I've no options but to subscribe to your channel.

[@marinetrax]

Which variety would you recommend in Subtropical climate?

[@kouranko]

How do you and your father like to eat your cassava?

[@bellkopley1714]

You explain well… Your time and research matters. Each one ☝🏽 teach one

[@gerardomeza3335]

I agree he explains pretty good

[@ingriddouglas408]

I love cassava, my Dad planted a lot of cassava. I am from 🇬🇩 Grenada, we make Farine, which is our natural cereal.

[@docgima]

Thanks Blue! Good looking pup!

[@cynthia1918]

You don’t need to remove the wood part from the center before cooking though. Just boil it and when it’s ready then you cut it and pull the middle part out, much easier :)

[@rider2731]

Their Indonesian names are "ubi" or "singkong". Cassava leafs cooked in coconut milk and small fish is a favorite dish in Indonesia. Fermented cassava (using yeast) is called "tape" and is a popular dessert in Indonesia.

[@Fred-O86]

9:03 you can also eat it with sweet tea with milk. In Kenya we like eating it for breakfast with tea. 4:30 you can also preserve it for longer when dried and turned into flour.

[@gleydistonbifano6847]

Love your knowledge! Thank you for sharing

[@jacksonjacobful]

You can keep it for a year if you half cook it and dry it in the sun. It becomes hard. When ever you want to use it again, you can soak it overnight and then cook it as normal. It's a different taste but really good.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Interesting!

[@estheroppong4782]

God is so good.

[@rosaarune]

Thank you for share, it's very informative.

[@patricia19551]

Thank you so much for this great Infor.,

[@hgdon-homeiswheretreesare-9239]

Love cassava! I start to grow some this year in January, so I look forward to harvesting them in the Fall. Your video is good, and thanks for sharing.

[@hgdon-homeiswheretreesare-9239]

I don’t sell them. I just share ideas and expertise. If you want to be healthy you have to eat proper plants and vegetables. Why not grow them yourself since they are more healthy.

[@mr.fancypants698]

Greetings from Florida!🌞🏝🏖 A friend of mine, introduced me to cassava. It's a staple in central, south america, and the caribbean. I just got a bunch of cuttings, I think that I have both varieties. Very interesting video, I haven't tried cooking it myself yet, I'm definitely going to make sure that I do it correctly. One other video, the guy says to soak the yucca root, after they are cut, in water, for 30min., dump that water, then refill, and cook it for 30min., or, until it is soft.

[@sorryimshy5412]

Very informative ! thank you for sharing

[@Piratevideoz]

Great video thanks - growing these this year!

[@savedandsanctified4126]

congrats your land is getting better and better growing beautiful yuca

[@aliveli20233]

Thank you i will try to grow some 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍

[@joycemcinnis5457]

Excellent instructional video. I stuck some in the ground July 2020. Didn't know what to do with it until now April 2021. I will harvest now. Thanks!

[@progressivehardindustrialslug]

Awesome.

[@1975JJD]

I admire your lifestyle. Keep up the great content!

[@oliviagriffin2385]

Simple living is the best, life seems to be more meaningful and peaceful.

[@tiannaanglin1544]

Very helpful thank you

[@franromany8096]

When I harvest cassava, I would peel , wash and freeze them. And when I need to cook it just take it out the freezer and cook. It's fresh as the day harvested. When cassava is bitter it's because it overgrown. It's good to plant it by the moon. Thank you for this video. You're on point with your intofrmation.

[@yeshuaisthewaythetruthandt515]

DO YOU MEAN PLANT THEM WHEN ITS FULL MOON? CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY? THANKU

[@kouranko]

I was wondering about this as recently harvested my first crop and there was too much. I handed out a lot to neighbors then i peeled and washed some and put in the freezer. I've now defrosted since last night and want to boil it tomorrow. I was googling cassava to find out of its safe to freeze! Thank you very much. One question - should i have defrosted before cooking or just cooked it frozen? The reason i defrost is because otherwise i cannot cut it. I guess i should have cut it when i harvested it before freezing.

[@michaelspringer9212]

@@kouranko Yes that's correct. You need to peel it,wash it,cut it to size bag it into say two pound bags and then freeze it. In that way when ever you need to cook you take it out of the freezer and drop it into your pot of boiling water. There you go !!

[@carmensantiago3393]

Cute.I grow them too and lots of other food.I make pasteles de yucca. They are 😋 yummy

[@verucasalt653]

Great, informative video. Thank you so much for sharing. I was born in Puerto Rico, my mom is Cuban and my Dad was Spanish. I grew up eating yuca/yucca. I'm going to share though with you how we do it, besides boiling the root. In addition, we make what's called mojo. We take an onion, slice it up in thin rounds, good amount of minced garlic, lol, and saute it in olive oil for about 20 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir, don't allow the garlic to blacken. Let it all brown. Then when ready, drain your yuca/yucca and liberally pour the mojo over it. I promise you this shall be an upgrade. 😉😆😙

[@DebiSunset]

Yuca and yucca are not the same thing

[@reinnic8535]

Its so beautiful ❤️

[@sherylhokianga3]

Thanks!..I’m Learning!..Got Some In About 5ft Tall!

[@talibshah4518]

Nice cassava is a useful veg

[@promodbandra2816]

So nice , thank you.

[@brendasollers5252]

I love cooking this dish I'm American woman and my sister love it I be cooking this in a few days

[@lerondsouza5263]

thanks for the video!

[@redroseaus]

Thanks for sharing...

[@vitalisasiku737]

Cassava is our staple food in Uganda - West Nile region. Cassava flour can be mixed with Sorghum or Millet flour to produce very nice bread which is really good with meat or chicken stew.

[@hoperules8874]

You can taste the food from your description! So good.

[@grace-shantif2073]

Thanks. I've just started using it so your comment is really helpful! Blessed Be 🙌 😇

[@vitalisasiku737]

@@grace-shantif2073 enjoy 🙂

[@jmnaval9625]

Great content! Keep on making more videos.

[@gerardomeza3335]

Great video

[@penuelyahucodiyah.4678]

Very informative. Well done, good video.

[@PhearomLs]

Good sharing ❤❤

[@andysharpa2754]

Thanks 👍

[@knowtheway2791]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@BrendenAenis]

Thank you helped a lot!

[@ginathomas4790]

Aloha, we are on the dry side of Big Island, and came across your video as we will be getting some cassava slips to plant. Thank you for this comprehensive video. Will make sure to put plenty of mulch on top.

[@aragregorian6039]

Great information my man!

[@rogercarroll1663]

great video work.

[@leonelroque4248]

You are such a cute homesteader!!

[@christinashurina1008]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 Thank you very much for the information!😊😊😊😊

[@michaelhudecek2778]

Just came across your channel and I have subscribed to you guys. Thank you for these wonderful tutorial video’s. 😊. Michael from New York.

[@yanetefthos701]

Hello ,I love Yuka, do delish 😋, I try it as a pancake 🥞S, they taste so good 👍😋

[@nancywells5626]

Hello! Thank you for the video. I grow Tapioca (sweet) in my yard for over 30 years. I have never grown it to harvest and prepare for eating. I grow it for it's beautiful leaves, easy to start, and a hedge of it as it grows taller makes for a nice sun blocker into my NW facing windows. I like pairing it up with Cordyline, bromeliads and sun impatience.

[@OffGridHawaii]

That’s a great way to use it, as a hedge! It’s so easy to grow and is prolific 🤙🏾✨ and if you’re ever in a pinch for some carbs, can always dig up some tubers.

[@nancywells5626]

@@OffGridHawaii I think the tallest mine have gotten is around 8 to10 feet tall. I am in Central Florida, East Coast. Planting zones 9,10, 11,

[@chubbygardener]

I've forget it, you can season them with leek. Take the green part of the leeks, clean it. Cut it up in small pieces, and then get them in a blender. Blend it until it's liquid. Keep blending and add your preferred oil slowly. It's going to get mayo consistency but green. Add salt. It's delicious with cassava.

[@christineearnest2106]

I too have grown it in my garden...and sweet potatos

[@vtrestrail]

thank you so much! ❤️

[@TamraDL]

Great video. I just planted 2 baby sweet cassava here in Florida. Your video was the most helpful I’ve seen! Thanks 😊

[@elianecardoso4318]

Hi, where can I find the seed or sticks to plant in Florida?

[@TamraDL]

Eliane Cardoso I got mine on Etsy.

[@elianecardoso4318]

Thank you!😉

[@passymatone5319]

Hello, what do you do with the cassava leaves.

[@GSL10]

Thanks for the video. Try the fried patties with honey. I had them like that in Honduras, and they were great.

[@fandevisgeano1068]

What a big casava 😎

[@josiahkulwa34]

Great

[@harjoat]

Very informative. Thanks for the video :)

[@Marisolbeautymakeup]

I need a husband like him for my homestead ☹️ hard to find ppl that wanna work to grow great food

[@seeyouagain911]

Marry a farmer!

[@StoicObserverS]

Finding a person willing to work hard and be 109% dedicated to a marriage is a hard thing nowadays.

[@Marisolbeautymakeup]

seeyouagain911 they are hard to find!

[@StoicObserverS]

@@AdultAuDHDCommunity here in Arizona everyone is an expert in everything they want to do. If you hire them then you become an expert at fixing other people's messes.🤪

[@Blue1Sapphire]

Maris. . . There are not many of us left.

[@AAHomeGardening]

That's one of my dad's favourite food

[@ajicalicutfarmandtravel8546]

Super ...sir

[@hiramcrespo734]

To make cassava last, you can grate it and dry (use cheese cloth and squeeze) and turn into cassava flour (you can make tortillas, bread, cakes, or use as thickener); this is also done with breadfruit before it ripens too much

[@OffGridHawaii]

Yes, definitely want to try this!

[@jnavsslick3764]

I make spaghetti and pasta from cassava

[@SwervinErvins]

I would love to know how to make pasta with cassava.

[@jaypzl]

I saw a video of indigenous practice in Brazil where they weave a storage basket and use special leaves to wrap the flour into, then bind it up into a nice tidy package that's about the size of a watermelon. They said it stays good that way for about a year!

[@patremagilbert8787]

Awe cute dog.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

New sub here who hit the bell too! Just found your channel. That was a fantastic video covering everything we need to know about growing and eating casva. I started a food forest last year and I think your channel is going to help me a lot. Keep it going please :-) Thanks so much for putting it together. Nice photography, and I really like your lay back style too. Thanks brother. Greetings from Australia :-)

[@cameronfleming5519]

Love your guys videos I just found your channel last night. Was up all night watching your videos. It's good to see local people doing this kin of videos. Would love to see you guys to get with Green Garden Guy and make a video. He is da only other local KZbinr/gardener I know of. Keep it up hope you guys never stop being KZbinrs.

[@OffGridHawaii]

Mahalo 😊

[@jamesjumah1388]

What are nutrients in cassava? Are they not high in cholesterol ? Thanks.

[@OffGridHawaii]

I believe cholesterol is only found in animal products

[@shivamaraj7055]

Very good information. Cassava can be peeled and stored in freezer

[@cl5473]

Been waiting on this video, awesome! I am ready to start a cassava forest of my own.

[@cl5473]

Are you able to grow any root crops like carrots, parsnips, radishes, onions, or garlic? How about any brassicas? Thanks.

[@OffGridHawaii]

We have not grown any of those but we know ppl who have.

[@estherserwaah4245]

Good job

[@annetnedelec9453]

Thanks for tip about cutting the two ends differently! I'm sure I've planted loads upside down! Here in Bali we plant them slanted. Like elephant grass. Don't kniw why.

[@yulsatriadi9793]

Thats the off Indonesiaan farmer. In my hometown to we plant the stek slanted😀

[@Thepeacefulpermi]

You can plant them horizontally and just cover the entire cutting it will grow back through the soil

[@yoshikagekira3710]

Thanks Blue

[@josephallie3001]

- We don't cook bitter cassava - we grate and juice then wash fiber and sun dry to make flour to make bread.

[@lifeiswargodisall7415]

Good for Garri too

[@ace1926]

Wow, this is a new one on me. Thanks for the info.

[@vitalisasiku737]

We do the same in Uganda - West Nile region. The juice out of bitter cassava is poisionous.

[@SunnyBunney]

If you dry it does it last longer?

[@ronnienascimento6332]

Do you know any video to share? I would love to learn something new with casava

[@ramosfurtado5313]

Thanks for your info on growing cassava. I grew up in Kenya and remember eating baked cassava 'mohogo' over coals. Where can I get branches in order to grow some myself. I live in Melbourne Australia.

[@lakitsymmagickal3871]

Thanks for the video! In my culture from the Caribbean islands, we use cassava for many things in our diet, it is a staple. You can mash it and make fufu which is delicious with saucy dishes. You can also put harvested cassava in a bucket of very lightly dampened sand, or sand that has been cooled via shade and it will keep longer due to the temperature of the sand, acting as a refrigeration-ish technique. Also, I make cassava flour which I can make all sorts of dishes with, even a dessert dish.

[@mathewjacob3075]

Casava with beef ribs best ever

[@ashw730]

In Sri Lanka we make Cassava leaves salad too. need to take the young leaves and put onion, G.Chilli, garlic scraped coconut and with a pestal&motar you have to grind it. then you have to put salt and lime to taste.

[@kamisama623]

It's really eatable?

[@audrawilkens6640]

sounds delicious~

[@ZZ90755]

Great video Thank you ,you can also deep fry them like french fries, also you can peal it boil it and it will split than you remove the root inside.

[@johnvarghese5123]

This is cultivated in india its name hrre is tapioka we makes it different types of chips makes starch out of it boils eats with chutney or sardine curry its a staple food of kerala i have planted it in my farm iam getting 20 pounds from each plant can get harvest after 10 months its originated from africa when portughese came to india they brought it to our country

[@repairman99]

The discoloration is caused by exposure to air. Its still good. We just boil it and dip it on sugar. Make sure you don’t boil it with peel. I grew up planting those in the Philippines. You can buy those already grated frozen from Asian stores. You can make cassava cake popular desert among Filipinos.

[@g..n.4700]

Wow Mike. Cassava Cake is so yummy. Sometimes I buy cassava, but when I cut it it’s already blackish inside coz they were transported from Mexico.

[@scottcoffinhotmail]

Aloha and thanks for the video! We moved to the Hamakua district from the mainland and some local friends gave us Cassava starts that they got from you! Thought you would like to know. I’ve enjoyed your videos for a long time and miss seeing new ones; hope you both are well.

[@hiramcrespo734]

Grew up eating it. In Africa, they use the LEAF of the cassava plant to make Pondu ou saka-saka , which is a stew. Pretty much any chicken or beef or fish stew can be turned into pondu if you add cassava leaves, pounded and cooked for at least half an hour into the stew, with cassava roots (or taro, or yams) and spices also in the stew.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

I've been growing a little cassava, and you definitely get a lot of leaves! Made Pondu a few times based only on KZbin instructions. The leaves are a little rugged, and also there are so many! More than I can possibly eat. I tried cooking it in a pressure cooker a few times, it didn't help much. I'm pretty sure this is the origin of some popular southern (USA) dishes of cooked greens, like collard greens.

[@santhoshkumar-vd7jo]

Cassava roots, peels and leaves should not be consumed raw because they contain two cyanogenic glucosides, linamarin and lotaustralin.

[@josiahkulwa34]

Good

[@zerroukamir2030]

I tried it yesterday for the first time. It tastes good

[@OffGridHawaii]

😃

[@jodiethuy4122]

Very informative vid! Do you have any orchard tour in August?

[@rogerlashley2026]

Hi just looked at your video and you were very informative with it. I will like to know what is the poisonous part of cassava ? Thanks 👍

[@cutepinkrabbit551]

Wow wonderful it's a giant roots! I wonder y America evthing is big! Phil'ippines everything is small!

[@avareid3186]

In Jamaica it is also grated and made into a kind of flat cake called bammy. This is further fried, baked or steamed and eaten mainly with fish. It is a favourite of most Jamaicans.

[@kimuseni]

Thanks

[@Outdatedrook]

Once u boil it u can take it out and stir fry it with turmeric and chillis and a bit of onions. From kerala India its one of our staple foods

[@Mute2024]

Yummy 🤤

[@teimbudzaicharumiro9749]

Save with beef stew

[@marytaha2448]

Thank you informative video where do you purchase to get the sweet one since it's easier since it's just for one person or maybe two persons can you grow it in a a big container if if you can't grow it in the ground

[@user-mp5zi1xk1c]

You can also store cassava by peeling, cut lengthways thinly about 0.5 to 1cm, spread out on clean surface leave to sun-dry - then you can store this sun dried cassava for months inside a hessian sack in a dry place.