Nana's Cassava Pie Recipe
 
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Cassava pie is a traditional Bermudian dish. It can be made with or without chicken. It's a sweet and savory dish eaten along side of the main meal.
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Cuisine: Traditional Bermuda Recipe
Serves: 1 pie
Ingredients
  • 3 lbs Chicken
  • 2 stalks celery
  • ½ bunch of thyme
  • 2 tbsp salt (for chicken only)
  • 1 lb of butter
  • 2 tbsp crisco
  • 1 dozen eggs beaten
  • 1 bag of cassava (additional water squeezed out)
  • 2½ cups sugar
  • 3 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp lemon extract
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ¼ tsp almond extract
Instructions
  1. Part 1- Chicken
  2. Boil the chicken in a large pot together with celery, salt, & thyme until cooked thru. Remove from pot & allow to cool, then remove the skin and bones from the chicken and any access fat. Cut the chicken into bite size pieces. Reserve one cup of the broth from the pot and set aside.
  3. Part 2 - Pie base
  4. Cream together butter and crisco
  5. Add sugar and then eggs and mix together well
  6. Add all spices, salt, lemon, vanilla and almond extract mix well
  7. Fold cassava into the mixture and mix throughly until all ingredients are combined.
  8. In a well greased pan add half of the cassava mixture to the bottom of the pan
  9. Then add a layer of chicken (more or less to your liking), before adding the last layer of cassava pour the reserved chicken stock over the layer of chicken evenly.
  10. Use the remaining cassava to cover the chicken then smooth the cassava out using a fork or spatula
  11. Bake @ 300 degrees for 3 hours. Allow the pie to cool before cutting it.
Notes
For best results grate fresh whole nutmeg for the pie base.
Recipe by Table For Eight at https://www.tableforeightbda.com/2018/12/17/nanas-cassava-pie-recipe/