How do you cook plantain?

Question

A person I once knew from the carribean cooked a lovely meal for my friend and I - they had plantain on the top for a garnish. I was dubious at first as I thought it was a hot banana but it tasted totally different and had a firmer texture. I've lost contact with the cook so I cant ask her!

Answer 1

Cut into slices longways, then in half ... then fry up in lots of hot oil, perfect with rice and peas and macaroni cheese. Yum!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Now let me see. I don’t know how your friend cooked his or her plantain but here are some ways you can prepare yours.

We have yellow and green plantain. So deepening on the occasion or event you could choose. But from your expression I guess it was yellow plantain. Make sure the yellow plantain is yellow and semi-hard.

Method One
Fried Plantain.

First Pill the Plantain,

You cut a little off the top and bottom with a knife. Then you cut the skin straight down, so you can open the plantain like a Jacket. When the plantain is naked like a banana. Use your knife and cut it slim. I wish I had a diagram for the cutting because there are three ways of doing it.

Salt the cut plantain, not too much salt a little and use your hand to spread the salt over all the cut pieces of plantain.

Make sure your oil is dip fry hot. If you have a dip fryer put the plantain in the dip fry metal holder, and deep in to the boiling oil. It is like frying chips.

When its Golden brown bring it out and let it cool and you can eat like that or with a nice semi-spicy soup.

Method Two.
Boil plantain

First cut the top and bottom.

You can then pill the plantain, and then cut it to a favourable size [Potato size] and steam it or boil it, till its nice and soft.

You can also leave the plantain skin on with you cut it. But make sure you wash the plantain under running water.

When you steam or boil it you can then use your fingers to pill the jacket. Its like boiling potatoes with the skin.

Why boil with the skin? The plantain absorbs the nutrients from the skin and you get some healthy stuff.

You can eat like that or with a nice soup.

If you are Caribbean or African I could tell you some more especially if you had given birth.

Anyway try the above for now. If you like it give me a shout out.

Answer 4

Double-Fried Plantain Rounds

4 green plantains
2 cups vegetable oil
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Peel plantains and cut into 1-inch thick rounds.
Heat the oil in a small saucepan until hot but not smoking. Drop the plantain rounds into the hot oil 3 or 4 at a time and cook until lightly browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove and drain on paper towels.

Set each fried plantain on a flat side, and using a rolling pin, frying pan, or whatever else you think will work, squash it as flat as you can. It should have a circular shape.

Return the flattened plantain sections to the hot oil 3 or 4 at a time and cook until the entire surface is golden brown, about 2 minutes. Remove the plantains from the oil, drain, and season liberally with salt and pepper. Serve hot or at room temperature

Hope u like!!!
Happy Eating!!!

Answer 5

Hi Groid
l cook plantain as l would my spinach. Just cook it until barley
tender, l find steming is the best way. it is also good raw after
being washed in a salad. Here in Canada plantain is part of
the dandilion plant l hope were taking about the same plantain.

Answer 6

The natives on the Cayman islands fry it in (a lot) of oil. It brings out the fruits sweetness. Cut the plantain into 1/4 inch corcles an fry it in a little oil.

Answer 7

There are several ways of cooking and serving plantains and bananas. A few tasty ones can be got at :
http://www.banana.com/recipes.html

Answer 8

plantain in the philippines is called saging na saba.the yellowish fruit is usually boiled in water,steamed or if you like it sweet fry it in oil for few minutes before addinmg sugar and it is called banana cue.use the firm yellow not the over ripe fruit.the over ripe fruit is usually cooked with sugar with vanilla.but the best one is the normal ripe or maniba in tagalog.(almost ripe)

Answer 9

I have an aunt who fixed some before and she lighty cooked them in a pan to eat with pancakes. Use margarine in a sauce pan and lightly brown.

Answer 10

Slice. Fry in a little coconut oil. Sprinkle with a little powdered sugar.