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Tannia Cakes

Name: Tannia Cakes
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Ingredients: 500g Taro; 1/4 Onion; 2 Green Onion; 1/2 Chili pepper; 1 Thyme; 1 Egg; 2 tbsp All-purpose flour; 1/2 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Grated tannia mixed with onion and green onion and fried — a Vincentian snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tannia is a taro-family root grown on Caribbean islands. In Saint Vincent, 'tannia cakes' — grated tannia mixed with onion, green onion, chili, and thyme and fried small — are popular as a snack or side.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a market on Saint Vincent, small round root fritters turn golden in a big pot of oil and are wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Taro 500g
Onion 1/4
Green Onion 2
Chili pepper 1/2
Thyme 1
Egg 1
All-purpose flour 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and grate the taro.
Finely chop the onion, green onion, and chili and pick the thyme leaves.
Add the vegetables, egg, flour, and salt to the taro and mix.
Drop spoonfuls into 170°C oil.
Fry until golden and drain.

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