In Brazil, detoxified manioc is ground and cooked to a dry, often hard or crunchy meal known as farofa used as a condiment, toasted in butter, or eaten alone as a side dish. |
It serves the national dish, feijoada, with couve and freshly cut orange and farofa. |
Gari, known in Brazil as farofa, is made from the root of cassava. |