Green Plantains

Store at room temperature until ripe. Once ripe, they can be refrigerated to slow down further ripening. For longer storage, peel, chop, and freeze.

Green plantains are best when cooked, as they are too firm and starchy to eat raw.

To peel, cut off the ends, make a slit down the middle of the skin lengthwise, and then pry the skin away.

They can be fried until golden brown for chips or tostones, boiled and mashed, or used in stews.

Pork

Chicken

Beans

Rice

Onions

Garlic

Cilantro

Expecting them to be sweet like ripe bananas; they are starchy and best cooked.

Trying to eat them raw; they are hard and difficult to digest.