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Name: Plantain Bread
Foodie: Linda
Eaten in: Puerto Rico
I was quite suspicious when I first tried this recipe, we make many different dishes with plantains in Côte d’Ivoire, but plantain bread isn’t one of them. What could it possibly taste like? Regular banana bread? Or worse, a weird cake-shaped dish with bits of plantains in it? Well,…
Name: Plantain chips
Or Banan frit in Haiti, Platanutres in Puerto Rico, Mariquitas in Cuba, Chifles in Guyana, Dodo or Ipekere (Yoruba tribe) in Nigeria, Missole in Cameroon, Tostones or plataninas in some of Central and South American countries!!!!!! ( Not to be confused with the double fried tostones from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Venezuela (see Banan Pese post))
Eaten in: North, Central and South America, Caribbean countries, Africa
Foodie: Gen
I know there are plantain chips that can be purchased in supermarkets. They are usually good; however sometimes too salty and overly expensive when you really think about it. I personally have homemade plantain chips at lunch, tea time, whenever I have a craving or as a substitute to tasteless plane food. …
Aranitas means spiders in Spanish. Do not worry, you will not need to go chase some tropical spider to realize this dish, all you need are plantains and garlic. Garlic is in my opinion what really gives this dish its taste. I had never had, nor made aranitas before, but they were pretty easy to prepare. …
Plantains are very special in my opinion, because they can be eaten and still be delicious no matter how ripe they are. I am hard pressed to think of another starch that has similar attributes: I cannot remember how many times I went to the grocery store, determined to buy fresh vegetables to incorporate into scrumptious dishes, …
