Note: This recipe calls for moderately ripe plantains. Look for ones that have mottled yellow-black skins, avoiding those with green skins (which are unripe) or black skins (which are too ripe). You may have to visit a...
While not nearly as sweet as bananas, plantains do have a sweet flavor. In this soup we keep that sweetness at bay by using firm plantains with green skins rather than riper brown-skinned ones--the sugars will have not yet developed, so the fruit will add starchy body to the soup without too much sweetness.
Add some fire to your everyday poultry with this jalapeño- and ginger-infused coconut chicken from Brazil. Try serving it with brown rice and black beans.
Spunky Cajun seasoning, velvety black beans and colorful vegetables keep this Cajun-Seasoned Vegetarian Gumbo lively, loaded and interesting. There's plenty of saucy liquid to flavor accompanying rice.
This Chicken Enchiladas with Roasted Tomatillo Chile Salsa recipe contains flour tortillas, dried black beans, long-grain rice, deli roasted chicken, monterey jack cheese and more.
