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This salad is inspired by something that was not even perceived as a salad, that used to be made by some students of King’s college, Budo (Uganda). It basically consisted of steamed cassava mixed with sardines or mackerels, the ingredients most readily available, then. In this case, we shall “raise standards” a bit by including some other ingredients.
This recipe shows how to prepare rice “KCB-style”, with canned fish. King’s College, Budo, is a cool, mixed, boarding secondary school, near Kampala. Students, at least a while ago, used to find ways of making use of the canned fish they got after working on the school farm. The fish & other food items were donated by the World Food program (WFP). This is one of the ways the fish was used.
So after techrina (in some connected forum) requested for this recipe, it was decided something had to be done. I know someone who cooks this now and then & so I combined what I saw her do with what I know about preparing potato au gratin to come up with this. Cassava is widely eaten in Africa, being prepared in different ways and so I thought doing it a little differently would not be bad at all. Gratin is otherwise not an African dish.