Green Plantains can be peeled to be made into chips by frying them. Can also be cooked in broth to help with stomach problems.
Ripe plantain (yellow,soft and black spots)can be peeled, sliced and fried to go with chicken, beef bean dishes. Also, it can be peeled left in one piece to be baked until darker but not burnt-it will be sweeter. It can be served with chicken, bean, and beef dishes.
I like it as I can get it in Asian markets or Mexican stores. If I eat it whole, I like to open it in the middle, a bit of butter with some white cheese!!!

Thank you for sharing, Nancy! I love plantains as well.

I have baked them & made “chips” out of them to dip in avocado.

Hi Michele, that sounds delicious! I’ll have to try it sometime. Thanks for the recommendation!

Dr. Axe I’m sure was trying to give a healthy, simple way of frying these. Coconut oil is the healthiest to cook with. In my opinion, if you don’t like coconut oil then avacado oil or sesame oil will still remain healthy. If none of those, extra virgin olive oil will do.

NOTE: If buying coconut oil, look for the UNREFINED and COLD PRESSED. This way, it was not refined in a factory and lost some of its healthy properties. Cold pressed means no heat was used. Still in its natural state. It’s a little more expensive than refined, but MUCH healthier, and smells/tastes better. HTH :)

The plantains should be soft when you squeeze them, and the peel will be yellow with dark(black)
marks on them…

You can find them at King Soopers or there is this Mexican store called Mi Pueblo. Plantains is platanos in spanish.

Olivia, it’s a different variety of a banana.

I get mine at my local Mexican grocery store. Very common there, but I have seen them in the other grocery stores. They look just like large bananas. They get sweeter as they age and turn brown, then black. You can fry them up when they are light and they taste similar to potatoes or wait until they are dark and sweet and use them like a dessert. They have completely replaced french toast in our house.