What are plantain bananas used for?

Question

I work at a grocery store and lots of people buy plantain bananas, but I would love to know what they're used for. I read that they're ripe when they're yellow, but they're always green when people buy them. i'm confused.

Answer 1

if they aren't all the way ripe yet, boil them and eat them with your food (good if food has lots of sauce). when they are really ripe, like brown, cut them and fry them with a little salt. you can also slice them thin and bake them for chip like. yummmm i love plantains!!!!

be careful when peeling, use a knife and soak in water. they have a sticky tar type stuff that gets all over your hands and doesn't come off with soap

Answer 2

Green plantains can be peeled, sliced and fried in oil. They taste like fried potatoes. Ripe plantains that are brown and yellow are sweet, so they are used in desserts. I included some websites with recipes. It's hard to peel the green ones, but I find the work worth it. I like fried plantains with anything I'd normally have home fries or potato chips with.

Answer 3

Plantains are bananas (cousin) that are oftentimes used for cooking, as contrasted with the comfortable, candy banana varieties (which additionally are primary as dessert bananas). Plantains tend to be much less attackable and decrease in sugar content cloth than dessert bananas and are primary whilst green or below ripe and hence starchy. Plantains could properly be utilized for cooking at any point of ripeness, and extremely ripe plantain could properly be eaten uncooked. because of the fact the plantain ripens, it is going to become sweeter and its shade variations from green to yellow to black, in simple terms like its cousin the banana. Plantain fruit could properly be brewed into an alcoholic drink. Plantain is often utilized in organic treatments to handle a sort of scientific situations. staring on the techniques utilized by employing a customary practitioner of determination medicine, plantain is used topically as a cream or infused oil to alleviate insect bites and rashes, or ate up internally as a tea or organic extract to help with mucous discharge. wish this helps. fairly versatile huh?

Answer 4

Plantains are used for cooking in hundreds of different recipes. Depending on the recipe they may be used very green to very ripe or anywhere in between.

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Answer 5

They are used in Spanish cooking. People use the green ones in recipes like "Pasteles" which are mashed plantain with meat and olive filling wrapped like tamales. People also slice the green ones and fry them in oil, smash them and fry them again and they're called "Tostones". They taste like potatoes. Then when they are ripe, people slice them fry them and they're called "Platanos Maduros". The Plantain are used as a staple much like our potatoes are. They are really really good.

Answer 6

plantain bananas are usually firm and not quite as sugary as a reuglar banana.

Green ones are starchy kind of like potatoes.
Yellow ones are sweeter in flavor.

Plantains can be kind of like a potato where it has a neutral flavor or texture when they are underipe.

If you wish to eat one raw, it has to be almost overripe. Otherwise they are more suitable for cooking.

Answer 7

Ripe ones are sweet when fried; green ones are used to make tostones and other things. Used in a lot of Latino dishes,.

Answer 8

fried with sprinkled cinnamon, and vanilla yogurt, or sour cream, YUMMO!

Answer 9

YOU EAT THEN YOU FRIED THEN OR YOU CAN BAKE THEN WITH BEEF AND CHEESE IN SIDE!!!!!!
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