05-03-2012, 07:56 AM
(05-03-2012, 06:53 AM)norral Wrote: i just wanted to add this veggie here. not really a recipe but plantain is very popular in the west indian /latin community. i grew up eating these as a kid. u can steam them or boil them or fry them. they are slightly sweet and chewy and a little bland so they go with everything. being yellow adding a little tabasco to them provides a very nice contrast. i have eaten a lot of them in my life. they do not raise blood sugar and are very filling i would call them a comfort food . when u buy them u want them to be very ripe green plantain is different than the very ripe plantain so its best to see a few black spots on the skin when u buy them
Oddly enough, I've never tasted plantain! (Except the most wonderfully useful medicinal weed by the same name, which is what I thought you were referring to at first.)
I've wanted to buy them but didn't, because I'd heard that they couldn't be eaten raw. Which sounds strange. Is that true? Can you eat them raw?