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Oblong, slightly curved, with skin that is usually a bit greener but often with brown or black spots: plantains, or cooking ...

First things first: Decide if you need unripe or ripe plantains. If you want them to be sticky and caramelized when cooked—like maduros, which are sweet, ripe plantains fried in oil—you’ll need to buy ...

Many fresh ingredients go from unripe (inedible) to perfectly ripe (fantastic) to overripe (again, inedible)—and sometimes this all happens in the blink of an eye. (Looking at you, avocados.) But ...

To prepare fried plantain, place the plantain on a cutting board (1) and start peeling it. This ingredient is very similar to bananas, but it doesn't peel the same way, so you will need a knife. Take ...

Fight the itchy, sting-y, irritating and endless summer bug season with a healing bug bite poultice made from this common ...

Pastry chef Paola Velez created these pecan-covered treats as a tribute to her Dominican mom's love of both plantains and sticky buns. The soft, ripe plantain gets cooked down to a smooth filling with ...

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