Labouyi bannann - Green plantain porridge

Entering the @blackfoodie.co battle with 10 ingredients or less, using the secret ingredient for this week, plantain.

Labouyi Bannann is a green plantain porridge that I grew up having for breakfast and super. You can eat it with bread. I personally like to put peanut butter on my bread when eating sweet porridges. You can also switch it up and eat it with cassava or you can simply enjoy a cup of warm Labouyi Bannann. The original recipe includes milk but I choose to omit it.

Ingredients

1. 1 plantain 

2. Cinnamon 

3. Nutmeg 

4. Ginger powder 

5. Star anise

6. Coconut milk 

7. 4 cups of water 

8. Lemon zest 

9. Almond extract ( substitute for vanilla extract)

10. Brown sugar 

Recipe 

1. Wash and peel the skin of the washed plantain and cut into small cubes.

2. Add 2 cups of water and blend.

3. Pour the blended plantain into a saucepan with your spices (cinnamon, anise, nutmeg, ginger powder, lemon zest) .

4. Add 2 cups of water and cook the plantain puree for 20 mins

5. Strain the cooked plantain puree

6. Add 1 can of coconut milk and brown sugar to taste let it reduce for 5 minutes

7. Add the almond extract (essence noyau)

8. Enjoy it with bread, or casava