Recipe: Appetizing Plantain Porridge

Recipe: Appetizing Plantain Porridge Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Plantain Porridge. Plantain porridge is once of Jamaicans favourites, made with green plantain, milk and spices. I am using fresh coconut milk this recipe, but you can use whatever milk that suits you. Have this delicious plantain porridge for breakfast or if you want to be like us Jamaicans, have it any time of the day.

Plantains are simmered until tender in a flavorful broth along with assorted vegetables and sometimes fish, beans or meat.

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Plantain is certainly ranking high in the culinary world with so many diets incorporating it.

You can have Plantain Porridge using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Plantain Porridge

1. It’s 4 of unripe plantain, diced.

2. It’s 1 bunch of Pumpkin leaves chopped.

3. You need 2 tbsp of scent leaf, finely chopped.

4. It’s 3 of fresh pepper chopped.

5. You need 1 of large onion bulb diced.

6. It’s 1 tbsp of crayfish, blended.

7. It’s 1 cup of palm oil.

8. It’s 2 of knorr cubes.

9. You need to taste of salt.

10. It’s 1 cup of Dried fish shredded.

Plantain Porridge recipe: Method: Blend the green plantain with water until it is liquid.

Once boil to, add the green plantain liquid.

Now put your stove on low.

While the plantain porridge is simmering, stir it in until it is creamy.

Plantain Porridge instructions

1. Peel and wash the plantain, dice the plantain scraping the sides of each before dicing to get a thickener With the stock, cook the plantain adding salt, crayfish, pepper, palm oil and seasoning cubes.

2. Add water to be a little above the plantain level in the pot Add the dried fish.

3. When the plantain is soft,mash slightly with a wooden stick Add the vegetable and cook for another 5minutes Taste for salt and serve..

Plantain porridge on the other hand, is a very delicious and healthy dish especially when combined with assorted vegetables, however it is optional not to cook with vegetables.

The first step for preparation involves peeling the plantains, washing and then cutting them into tiny bits or according to desired shapes and sizes.

Plantain porridge is a classic Jamaican breakfast, but like many cultural dishes, porridge has variations from person to person, family to family.

There's a base, but cooking is about evolution and individuality.

About finding new methods and flavors through your own curiosity.