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A picture of Gari and beans served with ripe plantain. Gari and beans is a type of dish made of staple foods in Ghana. It is usually common in the southern parts of Ghana popularly called 'gobɛ, [1] yo ke gari and even red red. [2]
A platter of fried plantains. This is a list of banana dishes and foods in which banana or plantain is used as a primary ingredient. A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. [1] In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains.
They can be made with unripe patacon verde or ripe patacon amarillo plantains. [29] Chifles is the Spanish term used in Peru and Ecuador for fried green plantains sliced 1–2 mm (1 ⁄ 32 – 3 ⁄ 32 in) thick; it is also used to describe plantain chips which are sliced thinner.
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Ripe plantains (platanos maduros) have a sweet flavor and can be fried in oil, baked in a honey or a sugar-based sauce, or put in soups. Green (unripe) plantains can be boiled in soups or can be sliced, fried, smashed and then refried to make patacones. These are often served with a bean dip or guacamole. [4]
A popular sweet variation, empanadas de platano are torpedo-shaped dumplings of dough made from very ripe plantains, filled with vanilla custard, fried, then rolled in sugar. [22] They may alternatively have a filling made from refried beans rather than milk-based custard, but the flavour profile remains sweet rather than savoury.
It is a combination boiled eggs, fish and/or pig tail, with a number of ground foods such as cassava, green plantains, yams, sweet potatoes, and tomato sauce. The cassava root is grated, rinsed well, salted, and pressed to form flat cakes about 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter and 1 ⁄ 2 inch (1 cm) thick. The cakes are lightly fried, then dipped ...