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🥄 Plantain

Plantain recipes from 18 countries

Plantain is a cooking banana, starchy when green and sweet when ripe, fried or boiled as a staple rather than a fruit.

18 traditional plantain dishes from 18 countries, with full ingredient lists and step-by-step methods. Free to read.

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What is plantain used for in cooking?

Plantain is a cooking banana, starchy when green and sweet when ripe, fried or boiled as a staple rather than a fruit. Copper documents 18 traditional dishes built on it, from Benin, Cameroon, Chad and 15 other countries.

How long do plantain dishes take to cook?

Across the 18 dishes listed here the median is 45 minutes. 9 of them are ready in 30 minutes or less.

Which countries cook with plantain?

These recipes come from 18 countries: Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Congo DRC, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Niger, Panama, Puerto Rico, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela.