Plantains are more than just the cousin of the banana you fry and serve with eggs on a Saturday morning. Across West Africa, ...

Matoke is a traditional East African dish where green plantains are peeled, steamed, and mashed to a smooth consistency.

You can dress up these fritters with spices or sauces and serve them alongside African ... use them as fun plantain appetizers for dinner parties. Place the plantains in a food processor.

Nigerian cuisine is filled ... Set aside. Tip the plantains, 150g coconut oil, the oat milk and vanilla extract into a blender or food processor and blitz until smooth, then pour into a medium ...

Scoop the flesh out of the skins into a food processor ... You can buy roasted blackened plantains from African and Asian shops. You could serve a mix of ribs and mini corn cobs: cut four of ...

Plantains and bananas together are the fourth most important food crop in the world after ... lots of similarities between Caribbean and West African styles of cooking plantain,” explains ...