Ingredient

Plantains

Flavor profile: Starchy and neutral when green; sweet, almost custardy when fully ripe.

1 Plantains recipe

🍌Fried Sweet PlantainBlack-skinned ripe plantains fried slowly until the sugars caramelise.20mEasyCaribbeanby Tonio Baptiste

About Plantains

A starchy cooking banana used across the Caribbean, West Africa and Latin America. Green plantains fry up savoury and firm; ripe black-skinned ones turn sweet and caramelise fast.

Common preparations: Fried, Boiled, Roasted, Mashed

Chefs cooking Plantains

TBTonio BaptisteOne pot, full plate. Port-au-Prince, HaitiCaribbean

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