Tropiway Plantain Fufu Flour, 680g

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It can be found in the freezer section and it is labelled Placali, don’t worry it is the same as fermented fufu. To use it as a thickening agent, simply mix it with water or other liquid until it forms a smooth paste. Since fufu flour is made from starchy root vegetables like cassava, yams, and plantains, it’s high in fiber, vitamin C, and potassium. Fufu is made from boiled and pounded starchy food crops like plantains, cassava and yams — or a combination of two or more — in a very large mortar with a pestle.

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Fufu ( Foo-foo, Foufou, Foutou, fu fu) is to Western and Central Africa cooking what mashed potatoes are to traditional European-American cooking. Usually, fufu flour is first made by selecting a mixture of starchy ingredients and potential extras like spice.Divide into two portions, place into serving bowls and serve with your favorite soups or stews over the top or to eat on the side. It’s easier to work the large pestle and mortar with two people, where one person concentrates on pounding with the pestle and the other person manages the ingredients in the mortar.

What Is Fufu Flour? (What It Is, Uses, Substitutes + More)

Nigerian fufu is mainly made out of cassava dough while other countries like Ghana use a mixture of cassava and plantain. To make corn fufu, start by boiling 4 cups of water in a pot, add 1 teaspoon of salt, and remove 1 cup of the water for later. To eat fufu is to unite with your ancestors, queens, kings and Mother Nature — it is a gift from nature that has kept the Ashanti people (from which I hail) crowned in glory for hundreds of years. The rewards are truly in these awesome efforts of elbow grease — for to have fresh fufu is to have communion with your higher power and be in contact with your ancestors.

Fufu itself doesn’t have much of a taste as it is primarily used as a bland, starchy accompaniment to soups and stews, but the flavor can vary slightly depending on the type of flour used (cassava, plantain, or yam).

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While fufu flour is mainly used to create fufu, fufu flour may also be used as a batter for frying food or as a thickening agent.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Fufu is an excellent accompaniment to any soup or stew, especially those of West African descent, such as light soup (nkrakra), groundnut soup (nkate nkwan), palm nut soup (abenkwan), green vegetable soup (abun abun), egusi soup and more. The word "fufu" is derived from the Twi language spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast, meaning "mash" or "mix," and is a staple in West and Central Africa, as well as the Caribbean. In Nigeria, when you ask for fufu, then you will be presented with cassava fufu which is also known as akpu or Santana depending on the part of Nigeria it is being served.