A bubbling pot of chicken stew with potatoes is a hearty, comforting thing. But substitute sweet plantains for the tubers, and suddenly your dinner leaps from familiar and predictable to unexpected ...

Plantain is a very versatile food source with lots of health benefits. Fried dodo is the greatest. The classic fried plantain can be eaten as breakfast, lunch or dinner. Mix it up with porridge beans, ...

Plantain is a magnificent tropical fruit and a staple ingredient in West African cuisine. It’s often associated with the banana, the main difference being it contains more starch and fewer sugars.

1. wash and peel the apim plantain. 6 Use the asanka/ earthen ware/mortar and pestle to mash the onion, pepper and garden eggs. 7 Pour the palm oil into the cooking pot and allow to warm up. 8 Fry the ...

Versatile recipes for starchy plantains and unripe green bananas. By Tejal Rao A few weeks ago, my uninsulated home had a chill in it that I couldn’t chase away. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that ...

This brothy version of asaro is packed with yams, plantains and hearty greens. By Yewande Komolafe When I returned from Nigeria at the end of February, it was at the tail end of the Harmattan, a ...