🇯🇲 Jamaican Cuisine

Bammy

Cassava Flatbread

Prep Time 45 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Medium
Calories 261 kcal

Dense, slightly sweet cassava flatbread soaked in coconut milk and fried until golden, a traditional Taino-origin staple of Jamaican cuisine.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Grate peeled cassava finely using a box grater or food processor. Wrap grated cassava in a clean cloth and squeeze out all moisture.
  2. 2 Mix the dried cassava with salt and optional sugar. The texture should be like damp sand that holds together when pressed.
  3. 3 Pack cassava firmly into a dry skillet to form a flat disc about one centimeter thick. Cook on medium-low for five minutes per side.
  4. 4 Remove the firm bammy disc from the skillet and let it cool slightly. At this point it can be stored for later use.
  5. 5 Soak the bammy in coconut milk for ten minutes, turning once, until it absorbs the creamy liquid throughout its center.
  6. 6 Fry the soaked bammy in coconut oil over medium heat for three minutes per side until golden brown and heated through.

Did You Know?

Bammy is one of the few Jamaican foods that predates European colonization, having been made by the Taino people for centuries before Columbus arrived.