A Hungry Man...

What is it they say about hungry people again? 

A meal in my home is never a simple thing. Simple rice and stew could take longer than usual because once I enter the kitchen my brain starts to wonder what else I could do to make this simple dish extraordinary. This afternoon though was the wrongest time for me to experiment because AF was hungry. I mean H-U-N-G-R-Y!

I opened the fridge to get out the stew and check if there was any cooked rice left. That's when I noticed the very ripe plantains. I knew that if I didn't cook them then they will end up in the bin. That wasn't going to happen as I had to travel very far to buy them. I thought of the fuel I used up during that journey, ah!

However what  I was planning to do was serious risky business as I had a very hungry man waiting. I quickly put the rice to boil and set out to prepare something with the plantain. I wasn't going to fry them as they had gone past that stage. I suddenly remembered some food porn I had seen on Kitchen Butterfly's instagram page. It inspired me to create my own. She used a ricer to mash up the plantain. I didn't have one of those so I quickly chopped the plantains and as I was adding the other ingredients, I remembered that a cheese grater, the type you insert the cheese in a compartment and rotate the wheel against the actual grater. This would work perfectly.

By the time I had mixed the dough, Af had come into the kitchen twice to ask if I went to the farm to get the rice. I heard him pacing up and down the living room and at one point I heard screams. I ran to the living room to find out what was going on only for me discover he had lost in some game he was playing on his iPad. I knew then I was playing with fire. I quickly served him the rice and stew without the plantain meal, he can have that as a savoury dessert!

Plantain Stuffed Balls

Ingredients:

2 very ripe Plantains

1 tbs crushed chill

2 tbs honey roasted almonds

1 knorr Cube

5 tbs of plain flour

3 tbs of fine breadcrumbs

1 cup of medium sized prawns

Method:

mash the plantain until there are no lumps and mix in the chill, almonds and knorr. Add the flour and breadcrumbs and Combine thoroughly. What you want in a thick dough that would hold so you may need to add more flour. Flatten a table spoon of plantain dough in your palm, place one prawn in the centre and fold into a ball. Do this until you run out of dough. Deep fry them until they are golden brown and crunchy.