How to Make Unripe Plantain Porridge

Ingredients

Unripe Plantain: 3 pieces
Pumpkin Leaves: a big bunch (or Frozen Spinach: 10 cubes)
Fish (Titus): 1 medium size
Ground Crayfish: 1-2 teaspoons
Onions: 2 medium sized bulbs
Red palm Oil: enough to colour the meal
Pepper and Salt: to taste
Seasoning: 2 big stock cubes

Before you cook Unripe Plantain Porridge

Wash, peel and cut up the plantain as shown. Wash and cut the pumpkin leaves into small pieces. If you will be using
frozen spinach
, allow to thaw just enough to let you cut them into tiny
pieces. Leave to thaw completely and squeeze out the extra water using a sieve.

Wash, cut and remove the fish intestines. Cut up the onions into tiny pieces. Grind the crayfish and pepper. Now you are ready to cook the unripe plantain porridge.

Cooking Directions

Put the cut plantain in a pot. Add the chopped onions, stock cubes, fish, ground crayfish and pepper.

Add water to the same level as the contents of the pot.

Cook till the contents start to boil. Add the red palm oil and salt to taste. Cover the pot and keep cooking till done. This is when the plantain is tender to touch.

Add the vegetables, cover the pot and leave to simmer.

Once it has heated up, stir, turn off the heat and leave to stand for at least five minutes before serving.

Serve with chilled soft drink or fruit juice.

Thanks for sharing, Toria

Frontpage!!! Like really??!!!.. This made the front page?!!

You dont want to know how this affects the 'my Emotions'...

Frozen vegetable ?? I've never heard of it before. If you want to enjoy plantain pottage well, cook with dry fish.
Some people don't add vegetables, but I add because of nutritional value. You may also add snail to it. Ps I'm salivating.

What a delicious,sugar free experience

Hmmmmmmm.......already salivating!

what is special about making unripe plantain porridge?
Seriously?

I do this, but with ripe plantains. More delicious than the unripe ones.

I hate d food.

slimyem: what is special about making unripe plantain porridge?
Seriously?

its a good source of iron and it is recommended for pregnant women.I ate it a lot when I was pregnant.you should try it dear.

Okija_juju: Frontpage!!! Like really??!!!.. This made the front page?!!

You dont want to know how this affects the 'my Emotions'...

why not frontpage? Abeggi, some times we hop unnecessarily too much

I only enjoy unripe plantain in the chip form.

i wish i were married,am tired of this rice, bread,rice,bread... Circle.
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Erm erm....@toria, can we work something out

Thank you!!

Been looking for this recipe since by Efik friend left

Real healthy stuff here, I tell ya

Ileke-IdI:
Thank you!!

Been looking for this recipe since by Efik friend left

Real healthy stuff here, I tell ya

Is that what I'm having for dinner?!..

I thought its normally mixed with one yellow or white, drinkable; eatable stuff? Just an observation sha!

slimyem: what is special about making unripe plantain porridge?
Seriously?

A lot of women cannot make it as simple as it looks. The poster is just trying to save some future marriages. Well done poster. Next menu goat head pepper soup.

good meal especially for diabetic patient!

i prefer the unriped plaintain powder for amala

hmmmmm, yummiee

Kekefia on my mind, hmmmm yummy!!!
Thanks Toria, more plz cos I really want to update/upgrade my menu

Is't new 2 u pple? chineke ekwela ihieojio
am even tired of d stuf

Thanks for sharing. I will try it this weekend ....I hope it comes out good

I love this dish and along with beans are two meals i can beat my chest about. Not to take anything away from OP, but i dont think justice was done to the meal.
Firstly, those onions and the first batch of ingredients should come in as soon as the plantain softens a bit, starting the onions with the plantain limits the desirable taste of the onion to the soup and not the plantain itself. The crayfish comes in last just before the palm oil. Try n see the difference
Secondly, the water level doesnt have to be so full, just enough to cover the contents would be fine. Finally, the key to the porridge is stirring when its ready. Just grab a spatula and stir till the soup becomes a fine thick paste - this is why i'd rather have some good dry fish in it than a fresh one, those reddish dried shrimps also go beautifully. I'll also do without the vegetables, i just see them as getting in the way of my good meal of iron - but thats just me.

now where is that lady that cant cook....time to learn

I always thought unripe plantain was all iron until i had a lecture on minerals and vitamin in my 5th yr in school when my professor explained that plaintain actually contained mostly carbohydrates and not mineral iron as widely believed. Thanks for sharing OP, will give it a try soon!

this is why i am marrying my babe by Gods grace. She is a mean a** cook.

it also helps that shes a total angel.

Dry fish, roasted bushmeat and stock fish are the best for unripe plantain.

It's been a while since i cooked this recipe but because of this post, I'll cook it next week.

i need to learn how to prepare native soups any one with a nice plz post up, waiting...

i need to learn how to prepare native soups, anyone with an idea, post up plz waiting...