Cassava Yuca Mogo in Heavy Coconut Cream By Jikoni Magic

Cassava and Coconut Milk is a scrumptious Instant Pot recipe makes it a cinch to cook and is full of tantalizing tastes and textures, this dish features hearty cassava chunks cooked in creamy coconut milk. The cassava is deliciously mealy and the combination of starchy and crunchy textures is perfectly satisfying.

Cassava in coconut milk is a famous Kenyan coastal dish and very easy to prepare. Tui varo mogo, mogo na nazi, are some of the common names used. Mogo is cassava and nazi is coconut. In the Gujarati language tui is coconut milk. Kenyan coastal dishes over the years have acquired both Arabic and Indian influence. Cassava is widely used as a main dish because it is widely grown at the coast, is cheap and full of carbohydrates. Its a poor man’s energizing dish, keeps the tummy full for longer period of time and a little goes a long way. Also it provides energy to get through hard laborious work.