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I can’t think of any better way to say Happy Chanukah than with Cassava Latkes!!! (Although they’re also the perfect appetizer or side dish any day of the year!) These latkes are crispy on the outside, and slightly chewy in the very center. DELICIOUS! These Cassava …
I like to think of Baked Stuffed Yuca as healthy stromboli – an Italian inspired gluten and grain-free yuca dough rolled around all “real food” nutritious ingredients! They can be made vegan by filling them with only veggies. I filled these with organic grass-fed beef, …
Grain-Free Crepes are quick and easy to prepare, and lots of fun to eat! They can be filled with almost anything – whether sweet or savory! With a fruit filling, such as strawberry jam, they’re perfect for entertaining guests for brunch, or as a sweet treat any time. They can also be used in place of bread to roll up meats, salads, nut butters, cheese, or anything desired! Since they’re made with tapioca and cassava flours they’re naturally gluten-free, grain-free and Paleo-friendly. They’re so delicious, no one will ever guess they’re healthy!
This post includes a great recipe for Strawberry Chia Seed Jam” by Lexi from LexisCleanKitchen.com. Why buy store-bought jellies or jams when homemade, low sugar jam is this simple to make? Thank you Lexi for this incredible, healthy recipe!
While this Strawberry Crepe is super low in sugar (it only contains a little honey in the jam) it really satisfies one’s sweet tooth!
Have fun adding your favorite fillings to these grain-free crepes and share your ideas and comments below, or tag me on instagram @CrazyForYuca and include #CrazyForYuca.
Servings: Six 8 inch crepes
Crepe Ingredients:
-1/2 cup tapioca flour – (I use Bob’s Red Mill Tapioca Flour)
-2 Tbsp Cassava Flour – (I use Otto’s Cassava Flour)
-4 organic, cage-free eggs (I use duck eggs since I’m sensitive to chicken eggs. Both work perfectly!)
-2 Tbsp coconut oil – melted (I use Nutiva Coconut Oil)
-1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract (*Omit if using a savory filling)
-2 Tbsp almond milk (Cow’s milk can be used if a dairy option is preferred.)
-1/4 tsp pink Himalayan salt (While any salt can be used, I use pink Himalayan salt because of its high mineral content.)
Crepe Instructions:
Melt coconut oil.
Place melted coconut oil into mixing bowl along with eggs, vanilla, and almond milk. Blend thoroughly.
Heat a frying pan on medium heat. (No need to use a non-stick pan or oil. These crepes will not stick to pan!)
Pour batter, about 1/4 cup at a time, into ungreased, heated frying pan. In order to make thin, circle-shaped crepes, pour batter slowly into the center of pan and use the back of the spoon or ladle in a circular motion to spread the batter evenly.
Cook on first side for about 1 minute, until batter solidifies. (See picture below.)
7. Flip and cook for an additional 30-60 seconds. Crepes should be slightly browned.
Eat immediately with desired toppings, such as the Strawberry Chia Seed Jam below. Crepes can be stored in the refrigerator or freezer for future use in an airtight bag or container.
*Note: These crepes can be quickly reheated from frozen in a toaster oven for 3-5 minutes or microwave for 30-45 seconds. Enjoy!
Strawberry Jam Ingredients:
-organic strawberries
-raw organic honey or maple syrup
-lemon juice
-chia seeds
Check out Lexi’s super simple recipe by clicking here: Strawberry Chia Seed Jam. She also has variations for blueberry and mango! If you haven’t checked out LexisCleanKitchen.com yet, you’re in for a treat!!!
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Grain-Free Crepes are quick and easy to prepare, and lots of fun to eat! They're perfect for entertaining guests for brunch, or as a dessert any time. Since they're made with tapioca and cassava flours they're naturally gluten-free, grain-free and Paleo-friendly. They're so delicious, no one will every guess they're eating healthy! These crepes can be filled with any number of things! See full post for a link to a super easy Strawberry Chia Seed Jam by LexisCleanKitchen.com.
Have fun adding your favorite fillings to these grain-free crepes and share your ideas and comments below, or tag me with your crepe pictures on instagram @CrazyForYuca and include #CrazyForYuca.
Melt coconut oil.
Place melted coconut oil into mixing bowl along with eggs, vanilla, and almond milk. Blend thoroughly.
Add tapioca flour, cassava flour, and pink Himalayan salt. Blend until smooth.
Heat a frying pan on medium heat. (No need to use a non-stick pan or oil. These crepes will not stick to pan!)
Pour batter, about 1/4 cup at a time, into ungreased, heated frying pan. In order to make thin, circle-shaped crepes, pour batter slowly into the center of pan and use the back of the spoon or ladle in a circular motion to spread the batter evenly.
Cook on first side for about 1 minute, until batter solidifies. Flip and cook for an additional 30-60 seconds. Crepes should be slightly browned.
Eat immediately with desired toppings, or store crepes in the refrigerator or freezer for future use in an airtight bag or container. These crepes can be quickly reheated from frozen in a toaster oven for 3-5 minutes or microwave for 30-45 seconds.
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Disclaimer– In Crazy for Yuca I write about my own personal health and diet journey. My experience and recipes are not to be considered expert advice or suggestive that anyone follow any particular diet protocol. Each person’s body and medical issues are individual and need to be evaluated by a medical professional. If you have any concerns due to your specific diagnoses, please consult your doctor before eating yuca.
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Why should the gluten-free be denied scrumptious almond cookies from the Chinese restaurant? (After all, we already can’t have most Chinese food!) My daughter, who is gluten and dairy-free, had a hankering for almond cookies and asked me to create this recipe using cassava flour. I decided to bake them for her this Valentine’s Day. They came out great! I made some round ones and some heart shaped ones. I’m excited to say that they held their shape perfectly during baking! No spreading at all! They can therefore be molded into any desired shape with cookies cutters, and decorated for any occasion. These Almond Cassava Flour Cookies are quick and easy to bake and have that delicious almond extract flavor!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
These Almond Cassava Flour Cookies are made with Otto’s Cassava Flour. It’s a nonGMO, gluten-free, grain-free, Paleo, Whole30 approved, autoimmune protocol approved, whole-food flour. That says a lot! It has a neutral taste and looks and performs very similar to wheat flour. It contains a significant amount of resistant starch, a type of fiber that feeds the good bacteria of the colon. While cassava is a starch, it has a low glycemic index (46) so it doesn’t raise blood sugar the way many gluten-free flours can. Check out these links to discover more about yuca (a.k.a. cassava) and cassava flour.
Getting to Know Yuca (Cassava)
Yuca (Cassava) Nutrition Facts
Otto’s Naturals 100% Natural Cassava Flour Made from Yuca Root Bag, 2 Pound
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Ingredients:
-1/2 cup Otto’s Cassava Flour
-3/4 cup almond flour (I use Bob’s Red Mill Super Fine Almond Flour.)
-1/4 cup organic coconut oil
-3/4 cup organic coconut sugar
-1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract (I use
-2 cage-free eggs (chicken or duck eggs can be used. I use duck eggs since I’m sensitive to the protein in chicken eggs.)
-1/8 teaspoon pink Himalayan sea salt (I use pink Himalayan sea salt for all my cooking and baking because of its purity and increased mineral content, as compared to regular sea salt and table salt.)
-1 cup slivered almonds. (I use Trader Joe’s Unsalted, Dry Roasted Slivered Almonds.)
Melt organic coconut oil, then blend with coconut sugar, almond extract and 2 beaten cage-free eggs. Add Otto’s Cassava Flour, almond flour and pink Himalayan sea salt. Once ingredients are fully combined, add slivered almonds.
Divide batter into 18 cookies, of any shape desired, and place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Below, I used a cookie cutter to make each heart shaped Almond Cassava Flour Cookie for Valentine’s day. I filled the cookie cutter with dough, pressing down to fully fill mold.
Once desired cookie shapes are formed, garnish with additional slivered almonds for a true almond cookie appearance.
So simple, yet sophisticated!
Bake at 375 degrees for 12-14 minutes, until edges begin to brown.
Enjoy your Almond Cassava Flour Cookies!
Serve them in baskets, or in any number of creative ways.
Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Get creative with your decorating and garnish with additional sweetness if desired!!
These cookies were decorated using melted Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Morsels, then sprinkled with Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Mini Chips. Enjoy Life morsels are gluten, dairy, and soy free, as well as vegan.
The red heart icing was made first by making a basic white icing (1 cup sifted powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1 tablespoon filtered water,) then adding a few drops of Color Garden Natural Red Food Dye. I’ve used a number of natural dyes before, but this was the first that gave a true, deep red! (Typically they come out more of a pink color.) The ingredients are beet juice, turmeric, annatto, and less than 1% ethyl alcohol as a preservative. There’s absolutely no Red Dye 40, as with conventional food dyes. Red Dye 40 is one of the most controversial dyes used today. It has been shown to cause allergic reactions and hyperactivity in some children (1,) In mice, research demonstrated that Red 40 decreases survival, reproductive success, brain weight, as well as parent and offspring weight. Evidence of both physical and behavioral toxicity were evident (2.)
I like to steer clear of Red Dye 40, and most chemical dyes, at all costs! Now that I discovered Color Garden Natural Red Food Dye, my Valentine’s Day baking can be gorgeous and healthy!
Look how gorgeous the red icing looks! A true red using only natural ingredients. 🙂
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These cookies taste just like almond cookies from the Chinese restaurant! With cassava flour, the gluten-free no longer need to be deprived of almost any treat! If you haven't baked with cassava flour yet, you're really missing out. Give these grain-free Almond Cassava Flour Cookies a try! You won't be sorry.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Melt 1/4 cup coconut oil, either in microwave or on stovetop.
Blend melted coconut oil with 3/4 cup coconut sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract and 2 beaten cage-free eggs.
Add 1/2 cup Otto's Cassava Flour, 3/4 cup almond flour, 1/8 teaspoon Himalayan sea salt, and mix until fully combined.
Add 1 cup slivered almonds. Blend into batter.
Divide batter into 18 cookies and place on parchment lined baking sheets. These cookies hold their shape perfectly (no spreading.) They can therefore be made into any desired shape, such as the heart shapes shown in post. Have fun with different shapes for different occasions!
Decorate with additional slivered almonds.
Bake at 375 degrees for 12-14 minutes, or until edges begin to brown.
Note: Since these cookies hold their shape perfectly during baking, they can be molded into any desired shape using cookie cutters. Once cooled, they can be decorated any number of ways. Use your imagination and send me pictures of your creations!
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Disclaimer– In Crazy for Yuca I write about my own personal health and diet journey. My experience and recipes are not to be considered expert advice or suggestive that anyone follow any particular diet protocol. Each person’s body and medical issues are individual and need to be evaluated by a medical professional. If you have any concerns due to your specific diagnoses, please consult your doctor before eating yuca.
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“Yuca-ta” Try These Cassava Flour Pancakes got their name because no one can believe they’re made with anything other than wheat flour! The taste is truly indistinguishable! These pancakes have been taste tasted on my husband, my kids, and a bunch of their friends with rave reviews! They are light and fluffy and everything you want in a traditional pancake.
You may be thinking, “What’s the big deal about cassava flour? Aren’t there lots of gluten-free flours out there?”
While there are many gluten-free flours, few can be used in a 1:1 ratio with wheat flour or have so similar a taste and texture. For me, cassava’s low glycemic index (46) makes it a way better option because of my blood sugar instability. White rice flour and tapioca flour have a glycemic index of 89 and 85 respectively, which causes my blood sugar to spike. (To have a reference point – below 50 is considered low glycemic, 70 and above is considered high.) Immediately after eating pancakes or baked goods made with high glycemic flours, brain fog sets in, followed by a huge drop in energy level. I literally have trouble focusing on even the most basic things when I eat high glycemic foods. Flours such as rice and tapioca are also often highly processed (nowhere close to whole-grain!)
Nut-flours (like almond flour) are the other popular gluten-free alternative, but how many almonds can a person eat??!! I can’t make EVERYTHING out of almond flour – although I often did before finding cassava flour – which typically led to stomach aches. For those with nut allergies cassava flour is a perfect option.
The days of high glycemic or grainy nut-flour pancakes are over! With Otto’s Cassava Flour the perfect gluten-free pancake has finally arrived! These are even a great option for the gluten-eating community as well. Cassava flour is an unprocessed, grain-free, non-GMO, non-inflammatory, paleo, whole30 approved, whole-food flour that is much better for our health than wheat flour.
I use Otto’s Cassava Flour for all of my cooking and baking with delicious results!
Otto’s Cassava Flour is available in some specialty stores, and can be purchased online by clicking the link below!
Otto’s Naturals 100% Natural Cassava Flour Made from Yuca Root Bag, 2 Pound
Click here: Getting To Know Cassava (Yuca) Flour
By ordering Otto’s Cassava Flour through our website we get a small percentage of the sale which helps to support the maintenance of Crazy For Yuca. There’s absolutely no additional charge to you. Thank you so much for supporting our efforts to bring you the latest yuca/cassava recipes!
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Healthy Eating Tip: Decrease the sugar and give monk fruit sweetener a try! Monk fruit, also known as lo han guo, is a melon grown in Southeast Asia. It has been used in Eastern medicine to treat ailments for centuries. Monk fruit sweetener is a natural extract of monk fruit, with a single serving containing zero calories. It’s highly recommended for weight loss and for diabetics because it doesn’t impact blood sugar levels. Organic Pure Monk is almost 300 times sweetener than sugar. I recommend using only 1/8 tsp in this 8 pancake recipe! The taste is different than sugar, and may take some getting used to. It’s FDA approved and considered safe for children as well as women who are pregnant or nursing. Note: If you buy any brand of monk fruit sweetener other than Pure Monk, be sure to read the label carefully. Many call their sweeteners monk fruit, but blend them with other sweeteners to make the taste more similar in taste and sweetness to sugar. The added ingredients may add calories, decrease the relative sweetness, or change the health profile of the sweetener. Give monk fruit sweetener a try and let me know what you think. But trust me, use VERY little. More is not better in this case.
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*I use the exact same recipe to make my Cassava flour Waffles! See pics below where I top my waffles with baked apples with cinnamon and another with blueberry and strawberry compote. 🥰
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These pancakes are so delicious you can’t tell they aren’t made from wheat flour! Your family will never suspect they’re eating gluten-free!
In a large bowl, whisk eggs along with melted coconut oil, milk of choice, and vanilla until well combined.
Add cassava (yuca) flour, coconut flour, baking soda, salt, and sweetener. Blend until batter is smooth.
Heat a greased skillet over medium heat.
Spoon batter (divided) onto heated skillet to make 6 pancakes.
Once bubbles appear (after about 1 minute) flip and heat for an additional minute. Watch pancakes closely to avoid burning.
Eat immediately.
Serve by themselves, with syrup, or with sliced fruit such as strawberries, bananas or blueberries. Make them your own way. Enjoy!
Notes: These pancakes can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator for up to a week or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Monk fruit sweetener is a natural extract of monk fruit, with a single serving containing zero calories. It's highly recommended for weight loss and for diabetics because it doesn't impact blood sugar levels. Organic Pure Monk is almost 300 times sweetener than sugar. I recommend using only 1/8 tsp in this 8 pancake recipe! The taste is different than sugar (VERY sweet), and may take some getting used to. It's a great way to decrease one's sugar intake!
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Disclaimer– In Crazy for Yuca I write about my own personal health and diet journey. My experience and recipes are not to be considered expert advice or suggestive that anyone follow any particular diet protocol. Each person’s body and medical issues are individual and need to be evaluated by a medical professional. If you have any concerns due to your specific diagnoses, please consult your doctor before eating yuca.
The Perfect Yuca Chip! I’ve been busily perfecting my yuca chips! I tried fresh vs. frozen yuca, paper thin vs. slightly thicker slices, pan frying vs. oven baking, and 4 different seasoning variations! If you ask me, they’re all pretty terrific! But if I had …
