🇫🇲 Micronesian Cuisine

Boiled Green Bananas

Plain Boiled Cooking Bananas

Prep Time 5 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Easy
Calories 196 kcal

Green cooking bananas boiled until tender. A simple starchy side served with fish or meat.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Peel green bananas and cut in half.
  2. 2 Place in pot and cover with salted water.
  3. 3 Bring to boil and cook 15-20 minutes until tender.
  4. 4 Drain and toss with butter and coconut oil.
  5. 5 Squeeze lime juice over bananas.
  6. 6 Serve warm alongside fish or stew.

Did You Know?

Green bananas are treated as a vegetable across the Pacific, quite different from the sweet fruit eaten elsewhere.