When my son accompanied me to the African store to buy plantains, I taught him how to choose
good ripe plantains and now he kind of knows which one's too ripe or not ripe enough («This one is too squishy, Mama!»).
Not exact matches
If one of your
plantains are more
ripe (yellow with black spots) and one is medium
ripe (mostly green) they always turn out
best.
I used frozen packaged
plantains as that's all i could source and they worked
well — used 400g or 5 small
plantains that apparently were between green and
ripe (hard to tell as purchased peeled).
Best easy satisfying dinner ever:
ripe plantains fried in olive oil, over easy egg, black beans out of a can cooked with some red bell peppers, cayenne, onion and a little bbq sauce, with plain yogurt as a topping instead of sour cream.
We looked around and saw some very
ripe plantains and thought they might actually make a
good pie!
The interesting thing about
plantains is that they are perfectly
ripe and sweet when black all over, whereas bananas would probably only be
good for the compost at the equivalent stage.
I used frozen packaged
plantains as that's all i could source and they worked
well — used 400g or 5 small
plantains that apparently were between green and
ripe (hard to tell as purchased peeled).