Ecuadorian Plantain Foodways

Verde y maduro

Specialised

Ecuador is among the world’s largest banana exporters, and plantain is the coastal staple in the way potato is the highland one. GREEN (verde): patacones/tostones, chifles, bolón, tigrillo, corviche, bala, majado, muchines, empanadas de verde. RIPE (maduro): maduro con queso, maduro lampreado, the sweet counterpoint on a savoury plate. Also the GUINEO and the small orito. The Amazon and the Afro-Ecuadorian coast use it as much as the mestizo coast does, differently.