Plantain
Pronounced PLAN-tin
Plantain is a large, starchy cooking banana that is always cooked rather than eaten raw. Firmer and less sweet than a dessert banana, its flavour shifts with ripeness, from starchy and savoury when green to soft and sweet when the skin turns black. It is fried, boiled, roasted or made into crisps across West and Central Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
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Also known as
- dodo (fried
- Nigeria)
- cooking banana
- plantin
How it is used
Fried ripe as dodo, roasted whole as boli, or sliced thin for plantain chips.
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