Savory Plantain Pancakes

I grew to love plantains in Ghana, and am especially partial to them when they are ripe (yellow) or over-ripe (black and yellow and squishy). One of my favorite ways to prepare them is as a simple savory pancake (no syrup, please). It is customarily eaten with boiled bambara groundnuts, which also grow in the northern regions of Ghana.

The first challenge is to procure ripe-to-overripe plantains. In some parts of North America one must buy green (unripe) plantains and let the