Other ingredients include coconut chunks, tiger nut milk, and cashews. In Liberia, garri is used to make a dessert called kanyan which is combined with peanuts and honey. In its dry form, garri is used as an accompaniment for soft cooked beans and palm oil. This food mix is called yoo ke garri, or garri-fɔtɔ/galli-fɔtɔ (crushed garri) in the Ga language of Ghana and the Gen dialect of southern Togo and Benin. This type of garri is a mixture of moistened garri kneaded with a thickened tomato paste, oil, salt, seasonings. Yoo ke garri is garri with beans, which is typically eaten as lunch. It is also eaten with bean cake in Nigeria. Smooth garri (known as lebu to the Yoruba) can be mixed with pepper and other spicy ingredients. A small amount of warm water and palm oil is added and softened by hand. This type of garri is served with fried fish. It is served with frejon on Good Friday. Variations In West Africa, two types of garri include white and yellow garri. Yellow garri is prepared by adding palm oil just before the fermenting stage of the cassava mash. Alternatively, it can be made using the yellow-fleshed breed of cassava. White garri on the other hand is fried without palm oil. Variations of yellow and white garri are common across Nigeria and Cameroon. One variation of white garri is popularly known as garri-Ijebu. This is produced mainly by the Yoruba people of Ijebu in Nigeria. In Ghana, garri is classified by taste and grain size. The sweeter types with finer grains are more valued over sourer, large grain varieties. Commercial food vendors prefer coarser grains with high starch content, as this produces a greater yield when soaked in water. Buyers often look out for crisper grains when trying to determine freshness. See also African cuisine Similar cassava-based dishes Farofa Fufu Ugali Ogi (food) Poi List of African dishes Tapai References External links Gari on Ghanaweb.com Igbo guide on garri Ghanaian cuisine Nigerian cuisine Igbo cuisine Cameroonian cuisine Fermented foods Staple foods Sierra Leonean cuisine Yoruba cuisine Liberian cuisine Cassava dishes