Green Plantain Chips

Name: Green Plantain Chips
Cuisine: Western
Ingredients: Salt to taste; 2 large green plantains (each plantain makes 12 to 18 strips, depending on size); Several cups of vegetable oil (like canola) for deep frying; Several cups of vegetable oil (like canola) for deep frying

Preparation info

Makes
5
servings ( 6 strips each)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Ghana Cookbook

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

About

This is a popular snack food throughout western Africa. Inexpensive and easy to make, these are a sure way to impress your friends in the U.S. Freshly made plantain chips beat the store-bought ones any day. They are not sweet, quite unlike dried dessert banana chips.

Ingredients

2 large green plantains (each plantain makes 12 to 18 strips, depending on size)
Several cups of vegetable

Africa
Ghana
Snack
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Directions

Rinse the plantains and peel by slicing off the end tips and making a slit lengthwise through the peel without cutting into the plantain itself. Use the tip of a knife to pry the peel loose to get started, then remove the peel by hand. Scrape off any fibrous strings on the plantain.
There are different ways to slice the plantain (see variat