Rolled Plantain (Nigerian Plantain recipe)

Hello guys, yet another plantain recipe for you today: rolled plantain! First of all, have you registered on Cands yet? If not please do so. I do not want you to miss out on the fun. You get to share your recipes, food pictures, make friends, ask question and many more on Cands like I wrote in my last post HERE. So guys go join me on there 🙂

Today's recipe is rolled plantain. I have done the fried version and the grilled version for the fitfam. You see, my fitfam friends have started looking at me with side eye like I am the enemy to their waistline..lol. So my fitfam and my 'oyel' (oil) lovers, let's do this:

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Total time: 15 minutes

Meal type: appetiser, snacks, main

INGREDIENTS

1 ripe plantain

¼ teaspoon groundpepper (Optional)

Vegetable oil for frying

For stuffing

Efo riro

Groundnut or any stuffing of your choice

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How to make rolled plantain

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1) Peel the plantain and slice horizontally

2) Sprinkle with ground pepper (Optional)

3) In a frying pan, heat vegetable oil and fry the plantains

3) Fry till golden brown. Put on Kitchen towel to drain excess oil

4) Place stuffing in fried plantain, roll and hold in place with toothpick. Below I stuffed with efo riro. For efo riro recipe, click HERE

5) Here I stuffed with groundnut. Here is another way to enjoy groundnutdodo without grinding the groundnuts. For groundnutdodo recipe, click HERE

6) Plantain stuffed with efo riro and grilled rolled plantain stuffed with groundnut. pick your choice

For my fitfam, To grill I roll first before putting in oven to grill. You can do it this way or grill before rolling

Enjoy warm. For the grilled plantain stuffed with groundnut I call this 'bolip' (boli+peanut)

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