Plantains may look like bananas, but preparing them is unfamiliar territory for many home cooks. Here's how to peel and slice green plantains before cooking.

Before cooking, peel by top and tailing the fruit, then cut along the angles of the skin and pull the skin away in strips. Plantains can be simmered in soup or turned into mash, but their subtle ...

If you see a plantain in your kitchen, what’s on the menu? Plantain fufu, pasteles, rellenitos de plátano, tostones, mole de plátano, mofongo are just a few of the dishes that come to mind.

Before frying it, plantain can be sliced into rounds, horizontally into strips, or on the bias. “I’m on the bias,” says Candice. “It’s just the way I was taught to hold it and slice it.” ...