Boiled plantain
Cooked (or boiled) Plantain
Boiled plantains make an easy-to-prepare base for meat or vegetable stews.
Peel the Plantain, before boiling.
Cut each plantain into 3 or 4 parts.
4 large plantains (Serving 2 or 3)
Boiled plantains make an easy-to-prepare base for meat or vegetable stews.
Peel the Plantain, before boiling.
Cut each plantain into 3 or 4 parts.
4 large plantains (Serving 2 or 3)
Drop the peeled, and in 2 or three pieces cut, plantains in to boiling, salted water.
Cook for 15-20 minutes until a test plantain is tender when pierced with a fork. Rinse in cold water, and leave the plantains in the water, till you are ready to eat them. For a sauce:
Palm oil - half a cup (Or vegetable oil, if nothing else to hand)
1 can crushed tomatoes. But you may use fresh tomato's as well.
1 scotch bonnet pepper (a habanero does the same job too).. careful though, those peppers are very HOT. Don`t get them into your eyes! pieces to taste
1 Maggi cube. Might be vegetable or chicken. Best is fish cubes.
1 pink onion(chopped)
Garlic and Ginger (For an even better taste)
Cook for 15-20 minutes until a test plantain is tender when pierced with a fork. Rinse in cold water, and leave the plantains in the water, till you are ready to eat them. For a sauce:
Palm oil - half a cup (Or vegetable oil, if nothing else to hand)
1 can crushed tomatoes. But you may use fresh tomato's as well.
1 scotch bonnet pepper (a habanero does the same job too).. careful though, those peppers are very HOT. Don`t get them into your eyes! pieces to taste
1 Maggi cube. Might be vegetable or chicken. Best is fish cubes.
1 pink onion(chopped)
Garlic and Ginger (For an even better taste)
Method:
Pour the Palm oil in to a pan, stir in the chopped onion and garlic, till onion turns translucent). Make sure, that the Palm Oil is not burning!
Add the cut tomatoes and scotch-bonnet pepper. (Cut the pepper in halves, it releases the flavor better, but be careful not to eat the pepper, if you are not used to that kind of HOT).
Let all simmer till the oil rises to the top.
This sauce is the basic tomato sauce that can be used for different recipes, going with rice and chicken, plantains etc.
Add the crumbled spices to to sauce and let simmer for 5 minutes, stirring to prevent burning.
Serve with the boiled plantains!