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Plantain - Ghana Food and Drink
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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) 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)
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!
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!
The typical Ghanaian staples in the south include cassava and plantain, FuFu, Kinkey and Bankou.
In the northern parts of the country, their main staples include millet and sorghum. Yam, maize and beans aroused across the country as staple foods.
Crops such as peanuts and Coco-Yam are also important in the local cuisine.
With the advent of modernization and colonialism, imported crops such as rice and wheat have been increasingly incorporated in Ghanaian cuisine.
In the northern parts of the country, their main staples include millet and sorghum. Yam, maize and beans aroused across the country as staple foods.
Crops such as peanuts and Coco-Yam are also important in the local cuisine.
With the advent of modernization and colonialism, imported crops such as rice and wheat have been increasingly incorporated in Ghanaian cuisine.
Important Health Tip: Any vegetable oil is to be consumed raw or extra virgin. Cold pressed and fresh, never refined. They should not be used for cooking at all. For cooking use only coconut oil, palm oil or butter.
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Important
In Ghana, as in many other African countries, people eat with their right hand. FuFu and Light Soup is just one of many dishes, eaten this way. But, you may always ask, for a spoon, fork and knife. It`s just the local, traditional way, to enjoy food. And yes, you will always, be offered soap and water, to wash your hands, before and after your meal... ;-) Please visit again, for much more pictures and info`s, or visit our see our main page, for updates: Food and Drink in Ghana |
Food Health - Interesting websites (external): http://doctorgenao.com/2011/04/03/dangers-of-vegetable-oils/ *