Definition

Noun: 1. A type of food made from cassava: Gari is a granular flour or meal produced from cassava root (manioc). It is a staple food in many West African countries. 2. A processed cassava product: Specifically, gari is created by grating, fermenting, and then roasting cassava. It has a slightly sour taste and is often eaten as a porridge or used as a side dish.

Examples

• As a staple food:
  • For breakfast, she prepared gari by soaking it in cold water with sugar and milk.
  • In Nigeria, gari is commonly eaten with soup or stew.
• Describing its form:
  • He bought a bag of white, coarse gari from the market.
  • The gari had the characteristic slightly fermented aroma.

Advanced Usage

• "Gari soakings": A common way to consume gari by soaking it in water, often with additions like sugar, groundnuts (peanuts), or milk.
  • After school, the children had gari soakings as a quick snack.

Variants and Related Words

• Cassava (n): The starchy tuberous root from which gari is made. Also known as manioc or yuca.
  • The farmer harvested cassava from his field.
• Tapioca (n): Another starch product derived from cassava, often in the form of pearls.
  • She added tapioca pearls to the bubble tea.

Synonyms

• Cassava flour: A more general term for flour made from cassava, though processing methods may differ.
• Manioc meal: An alternative name, using another common term for the cassava plant.

Related Phrases

• "Eba": A stiff dough made by mixing gari with hot water, forming a staple swallow food.
  • He molded the eba with his fingers before dipping it into the soup.

Noun

1. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca