Steem Bangladesh Food Contest: My Recipe and Procedure for cooking Plantain Porridge

Hello guys, steem greetings to you all. Today I will be sharing with you how I prepare plantain porridge in very simple steps and just a few ingredients. So what's plantain porridge? It is practically a meal where we cook plantain and the sauce in the same pot so it makes just one dish.

Below I am going to list the ingredients I use and the prices in FCFA (my national currency) and also the corresponding estimated steem price.

Not that I am cooking just for one person and it can last 2 - 3 days for me. So if you are cooking for a family then you have to add the required ingredients.

Ingredients and Prices

Photo	Ingredients	Price (FCFA)	Steem Price
	Green unripe plantains	1000frs	6.2 steem
	Smoked Fish	500frs	3.1 steem
	Pepper	100frs	0.7 steem
	Country onions	100frs	0.7 steem
	Red palm oil	1000frs	6.2 steem
	seasoning cubes	200frs	1.3 steem
	washed bitter leaf (1 wrap)	100frs	0.7 steem
-	Total	3000frs	18.9 steem

So for the seasoning cubes, washed bitterleaf, pepper, country onion and red oil, the cook puts them according to likeness and quantity, there's no fixed amount because some people like much oil while others don't while some people prefer more vegetable while others don't. So it all depends on the cook.

Procedure

• First of all wash the plantains, then peel them. After peeling chop them into little halves into a pot.

• Next, you pour water into the plantains in such a way that the water ends just above the level of the plantains in the pot.

• The next thing is to ground the pepper and add to the pot, next you add the quantity of oil preferable to you and then the seasoning cubes to taste.

• When all that is done, set the plantains on medium heat.

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• While on heat, prepare the smoked fish by removing the gut and the head (if you don't like eating the head). After that you wash them and add them to the pot on heat.

• Immediately after, you can add the country onion and let it stay on heat.

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• The pot will look like that because the red palm oil is already melting since the pot is on heat. When all that is done, you leave the pot on heat and left everything boil till the oil starts to thicken.

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• As the oil thickens, you should dissolve the vegetable in water, and squeeze it again. Then you add it to the pot. At this instance, you should lower the heat.

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• Leaving it on low heat, let the whole porridge just boil until it thickens to your desired consistency. When that point has arrived, you can turn of the heat, dish your food and enjoy.

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Hope you learned how to make my special plantain porridge. It's special to me because it's my favorite dish. I'm happy I could share.

20% to @steemit-bd

_{I would like to invite @sisol and @sikan-eyen to join this art and food contest}.