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 ...

This recipe is the perfect clash of two classic Jamaican dishes: fried ripe plantain and curried chicken. I've modernized the two and put them into one delicious bite. Pair this with a delicious aioli ...

"It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or even a snack. It can be as sweet as a dessert or as savory as a potato pancake; it all depends on how ripe the plantain is or isn’t." ...

Mashed, baked, roasted or fried, plantains are to many Latin and African food cultures as potatoes are to our American tables. Similar to a banana, but bigger and starchier, plantains or “cooking ...

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 ...