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How to Cook Plantain
Plantain is cooked in various ways, depending on what recipe you plan to make. Plantain can be cooked and eaten boiled, roasted, mashed, baked or grilled. How to cook plantain as a component of an African diet depends on what part of Africa you came from. In Nigeria, the most populous African nation, plantain is most popularly eaten as plantain chips. This involves frying sliced unripe or moderately ripe plantain in vegetable or palm oil till it is golden yellow to brown in colour and crispy. Plantain is also cooked boiled. This is much like boiling potatoes. You place the pilled plantain in a pot and had water to it and allow to boil for about half and hour until tender. This can then be eaten with a soup or margarine or some other sauce. Another way to cook plantain that is common in Africa is to roast it under balls of red hot charcoal, until it is cooked. This is called bolae or bolle in southern Nigeria. You can eat bolle hot with palm oil or butter. Plantain is cooked differently in Latin American countries. One of the most popular ways plantain is prepared is as tostones. This involves frying the slightly ripened plantain initially soaked in flavoured water, mash it, and then fry it again, until it becomes very crisps. For a full range of how to cook plantain, please see our Plantain recipesection.
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