Cookbook:Boiled Plantain With Vegetable Sauce

There are numerous more methods to prepare plantains, including making porridge, chips, roasting them over charcoal, and boiling them to serve with egg sauce, tomato-based stew, or veggie sauce.

Ingredients

 * Large, overripe, upeeled plantain
 * Salt
 * Vegetable oil
 * Onion, chopped
 * Tomatoes, diced
 * Seasoning cube
 * Ground crayfish
 * Nigerian curry powder
 * Green onion, sliced
 * Ugwu or spinach leaves
 * Dryfish

Plantain

 * 1) Cut the unripe plantains in half and wash them.
 * 2) Put the plantains in a pot. Add just enough water to cover the peels, and season with salt. Turn the heat to low and cook for about 1 hour. Check occasionally with a fork to see if it has fully softened; when done, you will notice the peels turning brown and the interior becoming more yellow.
 * 3) Drain the plantains.

Vegetable sauce

 * 1) Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Add the onion, and sauté for 30 seconds. Add the tomatoes, and cook until they are no longer sour.
 * 2) Add seasoning cubes, ground crayfish, curry powder, salt, and pepper.
 * 3) Add the green onion, and cook for 5 minutes.
 * 4) Add the spinach and dryfish.
 * 5) Serve with boiled plantains.