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This delicious sugar-free plantain bread saved the day!

September 26, 2015 by Tropical Foodies

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What to do when you promise your Grandfather you will bake him a cake, but he is on a strict no-sugar diet? You turn to super-plantains! Yes, plantains did save the day…. 

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Filed Under: Dessert, Plantain Tagged With: Dessert, Plantain, sugar-free

Black-eyed peas and plantains

May 3, 2015 by Tropical Foodies

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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, … 

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Plantain loaf: Another plantain recipe done! Challenge is on!

March 22, 2015 by Tropical Foodies

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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. … 

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Steamed plantain cakes and ssssh surprise!

March 15, 2015 by Tropical Foodies

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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!… 

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Filed Under: Plantain Tagged With: Plantain, West Africa

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