Unripe Plantain Porridge With Green Vegetables

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Ingredients for unripe plantain porridge with vegetables:
  • 5 fingers unripe plantain
  • 2 medium sized smoked catfish
  • 1 spoon ground pepper  
  • 2 seasoning cubes
  • salt to taste
  • 2 tablespoons palm oil
  • fluted pumpkin, green amaranth or hot leaf (uziza)

Unripe porridge
Unripe plantain porridge with green vegetables
Unripe Plantain Porridge served hot!

TO SEE ANOTHER RECIPE OF UNRIPE PORRIDGE PLANTAIN WITH SMOKED FISH, GO HERE

Just added green vegetables to the pot of unripe plantain porridge
Adding green vegetables to cooked plantain

 

Plantain porridge with green vegetables
Scooping form a pot of plantain porridge cooked with green vegetables

Stir vegetables, turn off the heat and stir.
 Cooking steps for unripe plantain porridge cooked with green leafy vegetables:
  1. Add the peeled and chopped plantain to a pot of boiling water
  2. Next, Add the bone picked smoked fish,ground pepper, salt and seasoning, cover and allow to boil.
  3. Then  the palm oil(not much), cover again and allow to boil until the oil mixes well
  4. Check for salt and stir frequently if you want it thick
  5. Allow to cook, check if plantain is tender enough for you.
  6. Finally, add the washed and chopped green vegetables, stir and check for salt and thickness before turning off the heat. Leave pot open after turning off the heat.
This unripe plantain porridge with green vegetables is given to mothers who just give birth to babies.  (Postpartum plantain porridge) Theirs is cooked with a lot of sauce (water) and the vegetable used is uziza.
 I cooked with  the Fluted pumpkin ( ugu) leaves instead of hot leaf. This is so delicious. The vegetable was the last thing to be added and as soon as I added, the heat was turned off to avoid cooking the green vegetables.
The steps are the same as the previous one but the taste is slightly different for a change. If  the veggies are not over cooked, you get the crunchy sound when chewing.
Unlike ripe plantain, this one does not contain that sugar, so.
I love it because I do not want my weight to increase any further.  The taste is even nicer than the color  For those struggling with weight loss or weight gain, why not drop the ripe plantain for a while and enjoy this delicacy. 

TIPS FOR MAKING UNRIPE PLANTAIN PORRIDGE

 
Unripe Plantain porridge can be eaten at any time of the day. The quantity of water depends on how soft you want your porridge and the quantity of soup you want to enjoy with your plantain.
It can be chopped into very tiny pieces but I like to do more of the chopping with my fork and knife while at the table. Sometimes I chop into bigger sizes than what is here.

Plantain is best eaten when still  unripe, and there is no better way than making some delicious  porridge. To see pictures of unripe plantain, GO HERE. Also see boiled unripe plantain with egg plant stew HERE

Check out another recipe of Nigerian plantain porridge.

17 thoughts on “Unripe Plantain Porridge With Green Vegetables”

  2. Just like I have grown up with sugar and it's not easy controlling it now. Gradually you start enjoying it and leave the ripe one alone.

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  9. Hey Joy, i tried to visit the link to the recipe for the unripe plantain and it says the page doesnt exist anymore. Pleaseee help me out, i wanna cook dis 4 my man bcos I knw he'll love it, lol.
    P.S. I lovee ur blog! its a great gift to women.. God bless you!! although it always makes me salivate, lol

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  12. Yay! i just cooked my plantain porridge but i used fresh pepper,yellow pepper and dry uziza it gave it the peppersoup taste, i used my side eye to look at hubby's plate …shhh his plate was clean not even a leaf left. thanks Eya ! kisses……try it peeps…… Bomsy

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