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I used dessicated coconut because the fresh ones spoils fast and also I added some grated cheese. Shape about a tablespoon each into balls and roll them in fresh grated coconut. In a bowl, combined grated cassava with sugar and water mix well until thorughly combined. If starting with raw fresh cassava root: Peel and grate cassava first then proceed as follows: It can also mean 'energetic and youthful', so her name could reference both of these meanings. Pichi pichi is a Japanese onomatopoeia word for the sound a fish's tail makes as it swims. NOTE: As you will notice, the recipe is using 2:2:2 ratio but I find this to be too sweet so I reduced the sugar and replaced it with brown sugar. Pichipitchi ( Pichipitchi) is an adult female Tamagotchi character that first appeared on on the Tamagotchi iD L, and later appeared in the Tamagotchi anime. Paiche, also known as arapaima, can grow to 500. This is the recipe for pichi-pichi, it’s very simple, really.Ģ cups grated cassava ( fresh or otherwise)Ģ cups pandan water ( I used plain water)įresh grated coconut ( used unsweetened dessicated) One of the oldest, largest freshwater fish in the world which breathes air and can spring out of the water has landed in New York restaurants. That’s because I used fresh cassava I grated it larger than usual because it’ll take me forever to finish grating it otherwise. I made these pichi-pichi using brown sugar as you can see in the photo, it has an amber color and you will also noticed that my pichi-pichi is not smooth. I will start with the basic and simpler one, I’ll post the other recipes separately. There are several varieties of pichi-pichi and couple of ways (that I know ) of cooking them. Pichi -pichi is basically steamed grated cassava rolled into balls and covered with fresh grated coconut. This is one of her favorite treats to make that I particularly find hard to resist. She always had something sweet to offer that kept us coming back like little bees to flowers. My first pichi-pichi experience was from an aunt, although unpopular among her nieces and nephews for being stern and masungit (sulky), she knew lots of delicious ways to win our hearts over.
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I grew up on these native sweets cookies, ice creams and cakes were reserved for special occasions. It is a type of k akanin which refers to the many ways of cooking sweet rice and other root crops like cassava and purple yams and are meant to be eaten as snack or desserts. It sounds like pica-pica which is what pichi-pichi is in essence: a bite size snack. I don’t know where it got it’s name from but I like it. Pichi-pichi is a pretty unusual name for a food, so much more for a kakanin.