The second recipe that I would like to share today is one of my mother’s ash plantain recipes.

Ash plantain curry

Time taken: 35 mins

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• Ash plantain – 1
• Tomato – 1
• Onion – ½
• Green chilli or capsicum – 1
• Ginger – 1”
• Garlic cloves – 2
• Fenugreek seeds – 1 tsp
• Crushed chillies – 1 tsp, or as per taste
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Salt, to taste
• Low fat oil – 1 tsp

Method:

1. First, cook the ash plantain, with skin, in water for 15 minutes. Leaving the skin on during boiling will prevent the plantain from turning from white to ash.
2. Once cooked, remove the plantain from the water and peel. Chop up the plaintain into small pieces and sprinkle some salt over them and keep aside.
3. Chop up the tomato, onion and green chilli.
4. Heat a tsp oil in a pan and sauté the chopped onion, ginger, garlic and green chilli with the fenugreek seeds.
5. Add the chopped tomato pieces to the pan and continue to sauté for a few more minutes before adding the salted, chopped up pieces of ash plantain.
6. Add ½ cup of water to the pan and adjust salt. Add 1 tsp crushed chillies and ¼ tsp turmeric powder.
7. Cook the curry till it comes together and the liquid nearly dries up.
8. Serve with rice.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.