First things first: Decide if you need unripe or ripe plantains. If you want them to be sticky and caramelized when cooked—like maduros, which are sweet, ripe plantains fried in oil—you’ll need to buy ...

Growing up, my favorite side dish to eat was fried sweet plantains. My mom would make it often for my family, and my siblings and I would fight over them, causing her to end up frying more. In my ...

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

Aborrajados is a traditional heavenly Colombian side dish. In this recipe, we made some minor but significant changes. Instead of a double fried plantain, it went from fryer to oven and we replaced ...

This recipe balances sweet plantains, which are cooked to crispy perfection, with rich, tangy black beans (cooked using lime juice and Mexican crema), and a refreshing pico de gallo to create the ...

Google is not your friend when searching for "authentic" plantain recipes and reliable information. But your retired Spanish-teacher mom and Colombian exchange sister definitely rank at the top of the ...

With only 3 ingredients, you can whip up these crispy, crunchy, spicy plantain chips that have a zesty cayenne and paprika ...

When I was a kid, my only exposure to plantains came when my dad thinly sliced and fried up a batch of green ones to make homemade plantain chips. They were rough-hewn: mostly crisp but still a little ...

When out walking in Kaneshie, the town in Ghana where my grandmother lives, in the hot dusk of the evening among the clatter and chaos of life, amid the sound of tro-tro (share taxi) drivers shouting ...