2006-12-12 04:36:58 · 10 answers · asked by thomas a 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
It is a cooked rice and milk pudding.
You can buy it already made in packages. I like it homemade
2006-12-12 05:33:22 · answer #1 · answered by Angell 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Tapioca is an essentially flavourless starchy ingredient, or fecula, produced from treated and dried cassava (manioc) root and used in cooking. It is similar to sago and is commonly used to make a milky pudding similar to rice pudding. Purchased tapioca comprises many small white spheres each about 2 mm in diameter. These are not seeds, but rather reconstituted processed root. The processing concept is akin to the way that wheat is turned into pasta.
Tapioca is a word derived from the Tupi-Guarani language of Brazil (from tipi meaning residue or dregs and ok to squeeze out). This refers to the process through which cassava (Manihot esculenta) is made edible. [We should note, however, that as the word moved out of South America it came to refer to similar preparations made with other esculents: 'Tapioca' in Britain often refers to a rice pudding thickened with arrowroot, while in Asia the sap of the Sago palm is often part of its preparation].
2006-12-12 05:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by serrano_bill 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the starch of casava or taro root, dropped and dried into tiny pellets. Can be soaked for yummy pudding. Also used in bubble drinks.
2006-12-14 08:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by web_researcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you think it is it's pudding with small white pieces inside.
2006-12-15 16:53:25 · answer #4 · answered by Miss C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite part of bubble tea.
2006-12-12 06:49:09 · answer #5 · answered by ourxtrees 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the black bubbles at he bottom of a bubble tea never tasted it though
2006-12-12 11:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by juliuscesar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is pudding with jello pieces.
2006-12-12 04:45:22 · answer #7 · answered by J M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a carb =]
its to do with starch and all that =]
energy giving sorta food =]
2006-12-12 09:21:16 · answer #8 · answered by janie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapioca
yummy when made into pudding
2006-12-12 04:41:18 · answer #9 · answered by Magick Kitty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is a tuber, like potato
2006-12-12 05:13:08 · answer #10 · answered by anita 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋