This is a wonderful dish that is cheap and simple. Place the ingredients in a pan and bake immediately! accompany with Italian bread. Good appetite!
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 3 hrs |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
Ingredients
- 12 eggs
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground dried ginger
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 sticks butter
- 5 pounds frozen cassava (yucca), thawed and drained
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking pan.
- Combine eggs, salt, vanilla extract, nutmeg, and ginger in a bowl. Beat to add air and fluff up eggs. Combine sugar and butter in a separate bowl and beat together. Add egg mixture to butter mixture and combine gently.
- Place cassava in a large bowl and add egg-butter mixture. Pour into the prepared baking pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Reduce temperature to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C) and continue baking until pie is set, 2 to 2 1/2 hours more.
- If desired, meat can be added to this dish. Generally, chicken and/or pork are used. Approximately 3 to 5 pounds of cooked meat can be added to the center of the pie. Pour 1/2 to 2/3 of the batter into the pan, then spread the meat around the center of the pan, leaving about 1/2 of the batter around the edges with no meat. Pour the remaining batter on top.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 770 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 123 g |
| Cholesterol | 225 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 16 g |
| Sodium | 833 mg |
| Sugars | 54 g |
| Fat | 28 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is a really good recipe for making a Cassava Pie but typically, because this pie is extremely rich, a pan this large would serve many more than 12 portions. I will say that this is the first time I’ve heard of adding ginger to Cassava Pie.
This is truly a ‘keeper!’ I made for Christmas 2020 – took Sayfiya’s advice and added more eggs and like A. Littles used 15. *Thanks so much sim871*
This is a good one! I tried it because Safiya said she liked it. Made 3 of them from this recipe so far, and used only 2.5 cups of sugar and 15 eggs.
I added 4 more eggs, came out amazing!