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Guinean Cassava Fries

Name: Guinean Cassava Fries
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Guinea
Ingredients: 500g (frozen) Cassava; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying; 1 Chili pepper; 1/4 Onion; 1 tbsp Lemon juice

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Boiled cassava cut into sticks and fried — a Guinean roadside snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In Guinea, cassava that's boiled, cut into sticks, and fried is a popular snack at roadside stalls. Crisp outside and fluffy inside, it's eaten with chili sauce or an onion relish and also served alongside fried fish or skewers.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Conakry roadside in the evening, golden cassava fries are lifted from a big pot of oil and wrapped in paper with chili sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cassava 500g (frozen)
Salt 1 tsp
Oil for frying To taste
Chili pepper 1
Onion 1/4
Lemon juice 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the cassava in salted water for 15 minutes until tender.
Remove the core, cut into 1.5cm sticks, and pat dry.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Mince the chili and onion and toss with lemon juice and a little salt.
Salt the fries and serve with the relish.

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