How to make garri from fresh cassava ?

Cassava is a tuber crop native to South America; However, Nigeria is the world's leading producer. Cassava roots can be processed into several different products, which include garri, flour and starch. Garri is a creamy-white, granular flour with a slightly fermented flavor and a slightly sour taste made from fermented, gelatinized fresh cassava tubers. Garri is widely known in Nigeria and other West African countries. About how to make garri, Doing Company will give the answer.

garri production machine

Garri making machines and production process

How to make garri from fresh cassava? Process of making garri steps as below :

1. Peel off the back of the cassava tubers. Try as much as possible not to peel too deep. Peeling cassava can be made by hand work or by our cassava washing and peeling machine. Adopt the peeling machine is more fast, east to handle.

2. Wash the peeled tubers. Use a lot of water because this is the only washing you are going to do, you also can choose our cassava washing machine for how to make garri.

Garri processing machine -- cassava peeling machine

3. Use the cassava grating machine to grinding the peeled and washed cassava into cassava mash. Good grating performance can get better taste garri.

4. After the grating in the process of how to make garri, the cassava mash need to be packed in bags and for fermentation 2-3 days.

5. Press excess water out of cassava mash by our automatic hydraulic press machine dewatering the cassava mash, then can get a cake.

6. Milling the cake into small pieces – known as grits and remove any fibrous material for how to make garri.

Small scale cassava grating machine

7. Then, fry the powder in reasonable portions until it becomes dry and crispy product. Nowdays, frying garri by professional garri fryer has been a good choice, improve the garri products quality, produce garri fastly, get high profit if you want to start the business abor how to make garri.

8. Pack your garri in a dry place, and start enjoying your meal.

Grri making machine--garri fryer

According to local policies, the Nigerian government strongly support for cassava and garri processing factories, and the local people aware the importance of the garri processing business. Henan Doing company can provide you with different types and capacity of garri production machine. Any details of how to make garri or for garri processing machines, please feel free to contact us.

DOING garri processing machine making garri is a reasonable processing converts fresh cassava roots into safer, more marketable, better-tasting garri products by:

1. Reduce cyanide content in processed products

2. Extend the shelf life

3. Reduce post-harvest losses of fresh cassava roots

4. Avoid contaminating products and the environment

In Nigeria, mechanized cassava processing is still in the development stage and has great potential.