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This recipe is really two dishes in one. Fried plantains on one hand and a flavorful shrimp and black-eyed peas stew on the other hand. As typically goes when I go on the hunt for new recipes, I wanted to use some of the ingredients I had at home, in this case: black-eyed peas, shrimps, tomato paste and plantains. And yes, …
I had three very ripe plantains in my fridge and they were on the verge of becoming unusable. Considering how versatile plantains are and everything you can do with them at every stage of ripeness, it would have been a real crime to let them go to waste. The issue was, I neither wanted to research a new recipe nor did I want to make my go-to recipe when I have overripe plantains, which is klaklo. because I wasn’t in the mood to fry anything. What was a plantain aficionado to do? …
This one only semi-successfully. I don’t know if it’s because I made apiti, steamed plantain cakes, the same night, but there was something off with my plantain loaf. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. It seemed like it would be a good base for a coulis or some kind of breakfast sauce. …
I think I am going to do a plantain challenge this year, at least two new plantain dishes each month. Who is with me? Reply in the comments.
This steamed plantain cakes recipe would definitely count. I did not like apiti growing up, but as often happens when music, foods, people become inaccessible, I developed some sort of romantic craving for something I never used to eat!…
