Plantain Cuisine

How to Cook Plantains – and How to … – Dominican Cooking. Peeling ripe plantains is almost as easy as peeling a banana, though you’ll need a knife. Peeling an unripe (green) plantain is more complicated. The way most Dominican home cooks peel plantains is a result of practice, and having mom criticizing their technique until they get it almost as good as “mami”.

Plantain Recipes : Food Network | Food Network. Mofongo is a Puerto Rican specialty made of plantains, chicarrones (fried pork skins), chicken stock and a bit of fried pork. Owner Benny Ojeda uses a giant mortar and pestle – with a baseball bat for a pestle – to mash together the fried plantains, chicarrones and garlic.

10 Best Plantain Recipes – Yummly. plantain, egg, butter, ground cinnamon, flour, baking powder and 2 more Chocolate Mousse with Plantain and Berry Jam Recetas del Señor Señor butter, milk, egg yolks, chocolate, egg whites, granulated sugar and 2 more

4 Healthy Ways to Cook Plantains | Delishably. Unripe plantains are sometimes used as a meat substitute in West African cuisine. They are great for making chips and/or patties (they are first mashed and then fried). Yellow or Yellow-Brown = Ripe.

How to cook plantain | BBC Good Food. Plantains look like large bananas, and can be green, yellow or almost black. They are generally eaten like a carbohydrate such as a potato rather than as a fruit, and this is how you need to think of them to cook them successfully. They are often fried as either chunks or thinner chips and served as a side dish throughout the Caribbean.