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Green Plantain Chips
Preparation info
- Serves
4
as a Snack with Drinks - Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
By Miss South
Published 2014
Green plantains are much starchier and drier in texture than their ripe yellow cousins. The best way to think of it is that green plantain are a vegetable similar to the potato or yam. They are particularly delicious fried as a snack and are eaten this way throughout Africa and South America.
Ingredients
2 ¼ teaspoon - salt and black pepper
Method
Cut the ends off the plantains with a very sharp knife. Then run the knife down the peel from top to bottom making sure you don’t score the flesh inside. Crack the peel back with your thumbs and peel it away in strips. Slice the plantains into rounds as thick as a pound coin.
Heat the vegetable oil in a deep pan to 75–80°C. Once a cube of bread sizzles in the hot oil and turns brown wit