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Roasted plantain sellers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Fried plantain is a dish cooked wherever plantains grow, from West Africa to East Africa as well as Central America, the tropical region of northern South America and the Caribbean countries like Haiti to Cuba and in many parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania, where fried snacks are widely popular.
During the early modern period, European explorers and slave traders influenced regional cuisines in West Africa, but only to a limited extent.However, it was European merchant and slave ships which brought chili peppers, maize and tomatoes from the New World, and both have become ubiquitous components of West African cuisines, along with peanuts, cassava, and plantains.
Mofongo is different from fufu but uses the same African method with vegetables available in the Caribbean. Plantains are most often used, but other starchy roots native to the island used by Taínos can also be used. Puerto Ricans have an obsession with fried food known collectively as cuchifrito in New York City.
West African-Inspired Chicken & Peanut Stew. This stew is made by thickening a flavorful, tomato-y soup base with ground peanuts and root vegetables. The result is a creamy, nutty, spicy, earthy ...
Tostones | Caribbean & Latin America. With (debated) origins in either Latin American or the Caribbean, tostones are green plantains that have been cut into chunks, smashed into discs, and fried ...
Dodo is a side dish of plantains fried in vegetable or palm oil, preferably ripe plantain. [40] Gizdodo is a combination of fried Dodo and grilled gizzard. Peppered gizzard, Pomo (Yoruba word for Cow Skin), Shaki (Yoruba Word for Tripe) Funkaso, millet pancakes. Masa, fermented corn ground into a thick paste, fried then sprinkled with sugar. It ...
Fried plantains seasoned with spices. Kenkey: Ghana: A staple dish similar to a sourdough dumpling from the Akan, Ga and Ewe inhabited regions of West Africa, usually served with a soup, stew, or sauce. The most widely known type of Kenkey is Ga Kenkey, but there is also Fante Kenkey. Kitcha: Ethiopia and Eritrea
It might be served with a side dish of alloco (fried plantains), or riz gras (fatty rice), an Ivorian version of the West African jollof rice in which the fattened grains are "cooked in a soup that's built from onions fried into a sugary sweat and simmered with garlic, fresh tomatoes and tomato paste, for layers of bright and dark." [2]