Tapioca chips are a deep fried snack food made from thin wafers of cassava root, eaten widely in South India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, where they are called kripik singkong, and Malaysia, where they are called kerepek ubi. Peeled cassava is sliced thin and fried, typically in coconut oil, then salted or spiced, commonly with red chili powder. They keep longer than raw cassava and are crunchier than potato or banana chips, and cassava in this processed form is also traded in bulk as a commodity for making alcohol, animal feed, biofuel and starch. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Tapioca chips are a snack food made from thin wafers of deep-fried cassava root. It is commonly found in South India, and Sri Lanka, as well as in Indonesia where it is known as kripik singkong (cassava chips), and in Malaysia known as kerepek ubi.
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The snack is sometimes purveyed and consumed as a street food.
Uses Ingredient: Cassava, lead paragraph
Tapioca chips are a snack food made from thin wafers of deep-fried cassava root.
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