Cassava opak or cassava crackers are a delicious snack or snack to eat while relaxing, making opak is done traditionally starting from planting sweet potatoes, harvesting and making cassava opaque.
This traditional food used to be only made in one variant with a savory taste, but nowadays it can be enjoyed in a variety of sprinkled seasonings, from ordinary to spicy.
Well ... to my knowledge, huh? To make cassava opak delicious, especially we have to look at the good quality of cassava, it is certain that we choose cassava with a soft texture and yellowish white flesh color.
One of the superior varieties, namely manggu cassava, which is always sought after by cassava opaque makers, with good sigkong quality, it is certain that the results of making cassava opaque will be in demand by the market.
For the process of making cassava opaque itself, it starts by steaming until the pieces of cassava are peeled first. After that, crushed by pounding with the tools provided
To produce a delicious taste, we can add ground spices such as garlic, pepper and a little salt, if the dough is well blended, the process of making complex cassava opaque is by grinding the dough until it is thin and can use bamboo or with a grinding tool.
After that, everything that has been stirred can be arranged on a container and dried. The drying process can be dried in the sun or with other drying such as an oven.
If using the sun, the cassava opaque mixture is dried in the sun for 1 or 2 days until the dough becomes hard and dry. However, if you use the oven, the dough is baked at a maximum temperature for 15 minutes until the dough is hard and dry
The processing of cassava opaque can be done by frying it in a lot of oil or in a healthier way, namely using hot sand which is usually called roasting or roasting.
If frying in oil, then use a lot of oil until the opaque sinks into the oil, and the temperature used must also be hot enough to produce cassava opak with a crunchy and fluffy texture that is interesting for us to taste.
And for how to fry using hot sand is an alternative technique for healthy frying, because it is free from oil or cholesterol, let's say traditional frying.