26 Plantain Recipes From 15 Cuisines.

A starchy cooking banana that is treated as a vegetable and is never eaten raw. Ripeness decides the dish entirely: green plantains are hard and starchy, sliced and twice-fried into tostones or boiled into fufu; yellow ones fry sweet and soft as maduros or Nigerian dodo; black ones are sweet enough for desserts. Peel green plantains by scoring the skin lengthways and prising it off, since it will not strip away like a banana peel.

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