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    Download Plantain Recipes E-Book

    I have had a few people request to add a print option to my recipes. I add them to select recipes because I do not want to make it so easy for people to just take advantage of it and become profitable at my expense. I still think if they wanted they would but It’s

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    Semi Ripe Plantain Pottage

    Growing up, my grandma always made unripe plantain pottage and I wasn’t so sure it was my favourite thing to eat. Then came my mum with semi-ripe plantain mixed with unripe plantain in the pottage and it was always fun to find out which plantain was slightly ripe when eating it. Well today, I decided

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    Plantain Moin Moin (Ukpo Ogede)

    Do you spell it plantain moi moi or plantain moin moin? I have always wondered what the correct spelling. If you know what it is, please leave it in the comments. So I have been staring at the over-ripe plantain in my kitchen and I really didn’t want to go the fried route of Mosa so

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    Plantain Pizza

    Last week, my brother sent me a message on whatsapp saying he had a dream about a dish I should try. See how awesome my family is? His original idea was plantain pizza with gizzard as toppings as a different way to serve dodo gizzard. Unfortunately, plantain will not hold well on its own so

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    Rice and Beans

    Rice and beans is a winning combination any day. So I joined this amazing group this year on Facebook called “So you think you can cook” and there is a challenge this week to create a beans recipe. I started thinking a little too deeply about what to create, I started thinking along the lines of

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    Ukang

    For those that have been following my blog since beginning of this year, you may have seen that I mentioned a dish called Ukang. Earlier on this year, I was in Nigeria and I went to visit my Grandma. She made me some Ukang and I couldn’t wait to blog about it. I have searched

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    Goat Meat Pepper Soup with Boiled Plantain

    On a sunday evening, my mum suggested we visit my cousin’s house and take some ingredients to make pepper soup. I peeled and washed my unripe plantain, picked a few scent leaves from her garden and washed the goat meat. I seasoned everything, placed in a pot and we were on our merry way. We

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    Salted or Unsalted Dodo? Which do you Prefer?

    The Nigerian love of plantains has always amazed me. If you ask the typical Nigerian how they like their plantains, many would say fried (dodo), boiled or roasted (bole). It was not until I stepped out of the Nigerian cuisine space that I found many other cultures also like plantain. i have noticed Jamaicans fry

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    Seafood Plantain Pottage

    This was a dish that I so badly wanted to put up on the blog but I decided to send it to Ynaija instead. It would still be on the internet either way. I enjoyed making it and had a serious craving for it. Seafood Plantain pottage is just one of those dishes that would

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