THIS IS IT! This is the culinary channel I've been looking for for a while. Informative videos, good pacing, great recipes, and the most important, charismatic hosts. Gosh, I missed this kind of entertainment in my life. Thank you!
I made some really delicious Plantains with fish sauce and it was the best serving them with any sauce adds the flavour, I added the recipes in my link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sIfImhF1RcI.html Try visiting to learn something new❤
Yewande has quickly become one of my favorites! I tried her shrimp and corn fritters and they were amazing. The kids got 3rds. I will have to try these recipes as well. More of her please 😁
Oh, wow! I'm from Panama so I grew up eating plantains: tostones (we call them patacones), maduros (we call them tajadas), and plátanos en tentación (when they're super ripe, we slice them lengthwise, fry them in butter, cover them with sugar and cinnamon, and bake them in the oven). We also throw green plantain chunks into sancocho, and make other stuff I can't remember right now. TL;DR: plantains are in my blood. And still, STILL, I didn't know I could cook them in such innovative ways! Thank you, Yewande, for the great recipes and for showing us a bit of Nigerian culture! 😋💜
For me plantains are for Dominicans what potatoes/sweet potatoes are for US citizens. You can boil them, fried them, put them in stews/soups, stuffed them, baked them and pair them with anything! Plus shepherds pie with ripe plantain + cinnamon & cloves is just out of this world! Haha I love plantains too!
@@Nurix21 No worries. I'm sorry if my reply was hostile. I've just come across a lot of people who don't realize that plantains aren't centralized to one place in the Caribbean.
I'm only upset that in my entire adulthood, I've never made African food or knew where to start. This is the year that's changing. I love "whole foods" recipes. As in, using unprocessed natural ingredients. So much catching up to do, thank you for sharing your food and hertiage with us!
When they are nice and ripe (black skin outside) I like to slice them, roll them in a coating of cornmeal, salt, pepper, and fry them crispy on the outside. Sweet, savory and spicy.
I made the plantain bean 🫘 salad it was insane! Zero left overs! My teenage boys devoured it! Yum!!! I peeled and cut plantains before roasting and I also chopped scallions prior to broiling - much easier!
Wow, all three of these are amazing! I cook with plantains all the time - mostly roasting and frying - but never thought to use them this way. Can't wait to try the bean salad especially!
I LOVE all of these ideas and can't wait to make them! I grew up eating plantains as tostones, maduros or in soups and am so excited to explore different ways to cook and eat them. Literally drooling.
I watched this the other day and forgot to comment- I was able to send this to my mother in law and also take notes for myself! Thank you for this neat guide
This is very inspiring and demystifying. I ate delicious firmish pieces of “banana” in some dish years ago. Turned out it was a plantain. I will try some and I am saving this episode ☀️😁 Thank you!!!!
What a great video - informative and inspiring. Never cooked with plantains in my life. Not only do I feel ready to do it now, but I am really looking forward to it as well.
Very informative and enjoyable. Plantains are unknown territory for me, but I've been curious about using them because they're healthy and other people seem to love them so much. Yewande's explanation about the different ripeness and preparing them based on those stages was very helpful ... and chill. Suggestions about making the dishes vegan were also appreciated.
This is fabulous! Just the kind of tips and types of recipes I look for! The dishes are making my mouth water. I will absolutely try them all. Can't wait to see more from Yewande Komolafe!
All those three dishes looks amazing. I want to try it out but plantains kinda hard to find in my areas. But it definitely give me some ideas to other starchy ingredient.
I want tostones now lol. thank you for showing such interesting ways to make plantains! i grew up eating them but hadn't seen these preparations before
Plantains or Ethapazham are a staple in southern India as well (especially the state of Kerala). From steamed Ethapazham for breakfast to Pazham pori or Ethakka appam/Fritter, where the pieces are dipped in flour and deep-fried usually eaten as a snack in the evening. The raw ones are used in for making Kerala dishes like ‘thoran, olan, avial, erisseri’. The most popular snack is Banana chips or crisps. 1000s of miles apart but its popular in so many places!
Fantastic video! Yewande is so knowledgeable, and I was really inspired by all the different flavor pairings she made with the plantains. Just one thing: the captions in the first recipe say "olive oil", but Yewande said "oil" and the oil was clear, so I'm thinking it was canola oil or something similar?
I think that small amounts being poured wouldn't show the colour of the oil in larger amounts. I think it's probably just a light olive oil. Another oil would work though - in West African cooking it might be palm oil or peanut oil.
@@buckybawllz6233 Right I believe, NYT has a subscription type deal for actual recipes. What I see in these videos is enough for me to make it right. 😎🙏🌿
sliced long-way and pan fried with a little salt. Ive made it this way and 100% intended to have them at some other time... but I ate it all right after.
It was very informative and nice BUT my question is: Why is she holding the potato masher like that?!? -> 11:22 😂 I’ve never in my life seen some one holding it like that 🤣
Do you really hate plantains?!! Lol!!! Anyway. I always wondered how people ate scotch bonnet peppers so I’m relieved to see that this is how you can add the flavor without having to “eat scotch bonnets”!!!
You can actually eat them raw, the ones that look kinda black and the ones before that. I eat them all the time. Also, the "tostones" we call them patacones, and after they are fried and smashed, we pass them through water with garlic and salt, and anything you want really, and then fry.
You can definitely eat ripe plantains raw (far from biting into a potato). Just like you eat a ripe banana. These recipes are an awesome way to enjoy them too!
Like the recipes and the ideas. However, it is not “Plan- tains” do you say “mount- ain” or “fount ain”. Say mountain or fountain the same way you say plantain.
