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.
A combination of beef and sausage and cooking in a hearty spaghetti sauce for three hours make these meatballs some of the best you have ever tasted. Once A Month Mom
