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With an appealing physical outlook and
delicious taste, plantain has over the years stood out as a diverse food to
savor with every taste. This food has been coming to the culinary rescue of
many Nigerians for a long time.
Jumia Travel shares six of the diverse ways
plantain can be cooked into enviable mouth-watering Nigerian dishes.
Plantain porridge
It’s a rich, delicious and very easy meal to
prepare. It is prepared with unripe or ripe plantain, but you can combine both
ripe and unripe plantain to achieve a faint sugary taste. The meal consists
mainly of palm oil (not too much but just enough to color the meal), fish
(dried, fresh or smoked), ground crayfish and meat or peppered snail to serve.
You can choose to add vegetables, as much as
you want. Fluted pumpkins (Ugwu) or spinach is a good choice.
Gizzdodo (gizzard
and plantains)
If you were not a plantain lover before
tasting this meal, you will definitely
fall head over heels with plantain after it.
Gizzdodo is an inviting combination of
plantain and gizzard in sauce. It’s an easy dish to prepare and can be served
as a side dish to rice dishes like fried rice, jollof rice, coconut rice and
white rice. It can also be eaten as a meal. It is mainly prepared with ripe plantains,
chicken or turkey gizzard, vegetable oil, seasoning and grounded red pepper
(tatashe), bonnet/habanero (rodo) and fresh tomatoes (these form the sauce the
plantain and gizzard will be mixed and cooked in).
A variation of this meal for fish lovers is
using fish (fresh, dried or smoked) in place of or alongside gizzard.
Boiled/fried/roasted
plantain
Plantains can be boiled, fried or roasted
(boli or bole) and eaten alongside fried eggs, sauce, rice (fried, jollof,
coconut or white rice), Ewa Agoyin, beans or beans porridge. Either way, it’ll
leave your taste buds reeling from the delectable taste. Roasted plantains can
be prepared at home in an oven or open grill.
Beans and plantain
porridge
This meal is as easy as adding plantains to
the normal beans dish we prepare with palm oil and dry pepper. It’s a tasty and
palatable dish prepared with ripe plantains and beans. It’s a popular dish and
one of the best dishes to use to get your children to eat beans. The ripe
plantains give the meal a sweet taste. Chopped fluted pumpkin leaves (ugwu) can
also be added to finish the meal; you can top the meal with tomato stew or
serve as is. The meal can be eaten with bread or rice.
Plantain mosa
The plantain mosa and plantain moin and moin
are two dishes born out of the need to avoid wasting over-ripe plantains. They
are both very worthwhile alternatives to throwing out over-ripe plantains.
Plantain mosa have been quite popular in the
small chops section of parties and have a sweet taste similar to that of puff
puff, but with a plantain flavor. It is prepared by blending diced over-ripe
plantains, bonnet pepper, baker’s yeast and warm water together, then adding
all-purpose flour and salt to the batter to blend for a second time until the
mixture is thick (but not too thick). The mixture is left to rise and froth,
then beaten once more before being scooped with a teaspoon and deep fried in
cooking vegetable oil till it’s golden brown. It’s quite an easy meal to
prepare.
Plantain moin
moin (ukpo ogede)
Plantain moin moin is similar to the plantain
mosa in preparation, but rather than frying the over-ripe plantain mixture, the
mixture is steamed. Fish or fresh prawns can be mixed in with the blended mixture,
alongside vegetable oil or palm oil. It is then contained in a foil, moin moin
leaf or nylon, and cooked in a pot of water or in a steamer until it
solidifies.
The meal is usually eaten as a snack or as a
meal with custard, pap, oat meal or rice.
Photo Credit: Nigerian Food TV
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