Cooking banana
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Cooking bananas are a group of banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking. They are not eaten raw and are generally starchy. Many cooking bananas are referred to as
Large bunch of green bananas
From left to right: plantain, red banana, apple banana, and Cavendish banana
Saba bananas – Musa 'Saba' (ABB Group)
Pazham pori, a plantain dish from south India
Fufu
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Fufu is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine originally made from boiled cassava, plantains, and cocoyam. Fufu's prevalence in West Africa has been noted in local literature, such as Chinua Ac
Cooking banana
…Grated green bananas and yautias are also used to form masa, a common ingredient for dishes such as alcapurria, which is a type of savory fritter. Fufu de platano is a traditional and very popular lunch dish in Cuba, and essentially akin to the Puerto Rican mofongo. It is a fufu made by boiling the…
Wrapped fufu
Pounding of fufu in Ghana
A family eating fufu
A plate of fufu (right) accompanied by peanut soup