plantain

Plantain refers to the cooking banana, an edible fruit that is full of starch and rarely eaten raw. Though similar in appearance, the two banana varieties are typically used in very different ways.
Plantain, believed to have originated in southeast Asia refers to the cooking banana, cultivars of the banana plant, which produces an edible fruit that is full of starch and rarely eaten raw. Though similar in appearance, the two banana varieties are typically used in very different ways. Usually, in many cultures where this fruit is a staple diet, it is boiled, fried, or cooked while green due to the starch levels. In some African regions, the plantain can be reduced to flour or for beer-making. However, in many instances an encounter with plantains is usually in fried form.

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  1. TheSoloChef

    How do you use plantain?

    This morning at work a colleague has given me one of these: I've never cooked with a plaintain before so you've all seen the sorts of meals I've prepared in the past - what do you suggest I do with this?!
  2. karadekoolaid

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    Ingredients: 250 gms papelón, panela, jaggery or brown sugar 225 mls (1 cup) water 4-5 whole cloves 5 medium plantains - the skin should be turning black, which shows the fruit is ripe Oil for frying Butter 220 gms hard white cheese, grated * 2 eggs a little water (* In Venezuela we use "queso...
  3. karadekoolaid

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  4. Hemulen

    Bananas and Plantains/Cooking Bananas

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  5. CraigC

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  6. The Late Night Gourmet

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  7. Morning Glory

    Cookingbites Recipe Challenge: Bananas and Plantain

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  8. Morning Glory

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  9. Caribbean girl

    How do you use plantain?

    How do you usually eat plantain? I like to have my plantain either fried or boiled. I would use it at the side of my dinner whether fried or boiled. I also use it as a breakfast treat along with fried or scrambled eggs. When I use it this way, it has to be fried. However, I have heard some...
  10. Ellyn

    Plantain / Cooking Banana

    I know how to stew this in sweet coconut milk, and I'm learning how to caramelize it, and it must be easy to just fry it up in butter and serve it with some rice and egg...or boil it in syrup and serve it with milk... But I wonder if there's anything else I can do with plantain, preferably not...
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