green plantain
Starchy tropical fruit
A green plantain is an unripe plantain—the starchy, banana-like fruit used in cooking rather than eaten raw.
At this stage the flesh is firm and not sweet, making it ideal for frying, boiling, or mashing: Slice the green plantains thin for tostones.
As plantains ripen they turn yellow, then black, becoming sweeter and softer.
- bananaCurved tropical fruit
- unripeNot ready for harvest
- starchyContaining complex carbohydrates
- tostonesCrispy fried plantain slices
- fryingCooking in shallow fat
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