How to Prepare Your Own Spicy Hot Plantain Chips.

Plantain chips is of the most loved snack in Nigeria, you can find it sold anywhere, it commonly available in 2 flavours, the original plantain chips taste and the spicy hot plantain chips taste. For today’s DIY, we will be making the spicy hot plantain chips.

Ingredients:

• 2 Unripe plantain
• 1 Liter of vegetable oil
• 1 Ball of onions
• 3 Gloves of garlic
• ½ A tablespoon of salt
• ½ A tablespoon of grounded pepper
• ½ A teaspoon of grounded ginger.

Preparation:

To begin, slice your plantain thinly into a bowl of water, once you have sliced the plantain. Place the frying pan on medium heat, empty your vegetable oil into the frypan, peel your onions, cut into half and place them into the oil, peel your garlic and place it into the oil also. While your oil is heating up, drain your plantain from the water and sprinkle the salt onto it, mix it all together and add the plantain to the hot oil gently, make sure you add it in a way that the plantain will not stick together.

Once the plantain is in the oil stir often so the chips will fry evenly, once they turn golden brown scoop them out of the oil, into a drain, immediately add the grounded ginger and pepper to the chips and mix them together. Your spicy hot chips are ready, easy peasy. Try this out on your own and have a taste of this snack goddess.

Writer: Idowu Elizabeth
Editor(s): Idowu Elizabeth & Awe Olufunso

Publisher: Awe Olufunso