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Farofa is served alongside the main course and can either be sprinkled on by individual diners to their taste before eating, or eaten as an accompaniment in its own right, as
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have a very smoky and slightly salty taste, by and large used to accentuate the taste of meat, particularly barbecued meat and hearty stews.
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is particularly popular, typical recipes call for raw cassava flour to be toasted with abundant butter, vegetable oil or olive oil, salt,
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is often consumed. Besides cassava, corn meal is also used for farofa making.
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until golden brown. It is sometimes served as an accompaniment to
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In West Africa, a variant of cassava flour known as
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or couscous down to a table-salt-sized powder. Most
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