Fried plantain (dodo). How to pick and fry dodo--also known as fried plantain easily! This is a staple in regions around the world including West African, South American, and Caribbean. Plantain, believed to have originated in southeast Asia refers to the cooking banana, cultivars of the banana plant, which produces an edible fruit that is full of starch and rarely eaten raw.

Dodo is one of every Nigerian's favorite. It is also quite fast and easy to make. It can be eaten as a side dish, paired with any rice dish (Jollof Rice, Fried Rice, Coconut Rice etc). You can cook Fried plantain (dodo) using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Fried plantain (dodo)

It's of Plantain.
You need of Veg oil.
It's of Salt.
You need of Chilly Powdered pepper (optional).

Fried Plantain or Dodo is so easy to prepare. If you can fry egg, you can prepare this meal. Fried Plantain is one of the easy and fast Nigerian food recipes. It often features in Nigerian breakfast meals.

Fried plantain (dodo) instructions

Cut the raw plantain into your desired shape, you can dice or slice in round shape. Add pinch of salt and Chilly, make sure it's combined.
Heat oil in a frying pan on medium heat, add the plantain and allow it fry till its golden brown, turn or stir at intervals till its ready..
When buying the plantain, don't buy the unripe or overripe, buy the one in between, it taste great and better.. U can buy the almost ripe one n use d next day.

The Groundnut Cookbook from Duval Timothy, Folayemi Brown and Jacob Fodio Todd features recipes inspired by and inherited from their East and West African heritage. Fried, grilled, boiled, dehydrated and pulverized, sweet or savory, plantains are a staple of Nigerian cuisine. Dodo, as it is called in Yoruba, refers to fried sweet plantains. Rinse the plantains in cold water. Be the first to review this recipe.