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This is a snack you can have anytime be it breakfast, tea time or you feel like eating something. We love it; even my little one likes to have it. I make it very often. It is easy to make without any special skill.
Out of curiosity I goggled and find out that plantain eating habit is not only common in India it also more common in other parts of world too, especially in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, and Philippines. Plantains are used in green and ripe form as well as fried, boiled and cooked. I found other interesting facts about eating plantains such as it helps with digestion, and prevents constipation. They are rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and fiber, with no cholesterol. Plantains are even considered to have mood enhancers and also thought to help to retain the everlasting youth (I have a doubt about that one, because my granddad and grandma used to eat plantain and they became very old though!). If you want to read more about health benefits of eating plantain read from here and here.
Plantains (and bananas) are prepackaged fruit by nature you can open and eat it, without thinking of microbes and dust.Here come Ethapazham puzhungiyathu /Boiled plantains recipe.
What you need
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Ripe Plantain: 2 no (ripe enough to be eaten without any cooking.)
Water: 4 cups
How I Made
Wash and cut head and tail end of plantains using a knife and cut into 4 chunks of 3 inches.
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In medium sauce pot heat water along with plantain chunks for about 15 minutes or until you see bright yellow spot in center.
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Remove from the boiling water, peel the skin, and eat with or without sugar.
Enjoy
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Preparation time: 15 minutes
Yield: 2 Serving
Verdict: Yummy
Will you make it again: Making it very often.
Swathi
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Srivalli says
Thank you for the lovely entry!
Malar Gandhi says
Love it with rice puttu:)
Suma Gandlur says
Did you ripen the regular plantain or use those special plantains?
Usha says
Looks delicious ! Regarding your question on banana cookies, they reminded me very slightly of appam in taste, appam is the fried dumpling that is made of rice, jaggery, banana and cardamom !
Rachana Kothari says
Yummy Plantains!
Siddhi S says
very healthy dish...nice n simple one
Parita says
Yummy plantains!
Rosa's Yummy Yums says
An interesting way of preparing plantains!
Cheers,
Rosa
Meena says
my absolute childhood fave...athi ugggran!!!
shahana says
Kurachu gheeyum sugarum koodi undenkil super!!!
Preety says
simple and healthy one
Jagruti says
Very healthy and simply dish..new for me!!
simply.food says
Swathi , you are so right, In east africa this is the staple food and we always used to eat boiled plaintain mashed and drizzled with oil, lemon juice,chillipowder and salt.It is a very verasatile veg.
simply.food -Nayna
N S says
Boiled plantain! new to me. will try it. I started following your blog.
Swapna Sree says
woow!!looks so beautiful...very new recipe to me...simple and healthy...will try soon..
Priya says
Quite an easy and healthy dish..
Vrinda says
My fav too dear...n very very healthy..
Hari Chandana says
WOW.. Looks Yummmm.. love the color.. 🙂
Sushma Mallya says
quiet an easy one swathi, my mom used to do this and have with sugar...looks yum...
SathyaSridhar says
Woooow,,, its good and healthy food,,,very easy to cook it,, looks natural dear,,,thanks for sharing,,take care n keep smiling,,
Padhu says
You know when I went to Kerala ,I was served this with puttu. I loved it very much.