How to make cassava flour for bread?

In Africa, more and more people decide to substitute the wheat flour with cassava flour to make bread. For one thing, the wheat flour is mainly depended on the importation, while the import price is higher than cassava flour, for another, cassava is a main crop in Africa and the cost for processing cassava flour is relatively lower than wheat flour. Then how to make high quality cassava flour for bread?

In the market, there are two methods making cassava flour for bread. One is the dry method, milling cassava tubers to powder, the other is the wet method, processing fresh cassava tubers to flour. In order to get high quality cassava flour, most people prefer to choose the latter to produce standard cassava flour with high capacity to make bread.

the steps to make cassava flour

The steps to make cassava flour for bread by the wet method are as follows:

Step 1: Selecting and cleaning the Cassava Roots

To make high quality cassava flour for bread, you firstly should select cassava roots which are fresh, firm, free from blemishes, and have a creamy-white flesh inside. Then use cassava cleaning machines to rinse the roots to eliminate any dirt or sand and cassava peeling machines to remove the poisonous layers.

Step 2: Grating the Cassava Roots

After the cleaning process, you shall adopt a cassava grating machine to grate and grind the roots into cassava mash. This machine with a high crushing rate up to 95% can greatly improve the flour productivity as well as ensuring the taste of final cassava flour.

Step 3: Dewatering the Cassava mash

The aim of installing a dewatering machine in the cassava flour making line for bread is to remove the excess water in the cassava mash. The moisture of cassava flour after this machine can be reduced to 40%.

making cassava flour for bread

Step 4: Drying the Wet Cassava Cake

Then it comes to the drying section in making cassava flour for bread. The dehydrated mash is dried by a flash dryer to further reduce its moisture content(about 12%) This machine, with its fully sealed design and negative pressure drying principle, can low the flour loss as well as improving the drying effect.

Step 5: Sifting the Cassava Flour

To achieve a finer texture, pass the cassava flour through a fine-mesh sieve or a flour sifter. This will help remove any remaining coarse particles, resulting in a smoother cassava flour suitable for bread making.

cassava flour making machinery in Henan Jinrui's factory

By following these steps, you can make high quality cassava flour for bread. Moreover, according to our client’s feedback, the price of one-ton cassava flour is about 600usd to 800usd in Africa countries. So in addition to making bread, the high cassava flour can also be used in other fields, like beverage, pastry and so on.

Henan Jinrui, as a professional supplier of cassava flour making machine, can provide from one-ton-per hour cassava flour production line to forty-tons-per-hour cassava flour production line. And the configuration of the production lines can be designed into semi automatic and fully automatic types according to different client’s requirements. If you have interest in cassava flour processing business, we are glad to give you some suggestions!