Can you imagine how happy you'd be if you walked in the door after work and the smell of better-for-you pot roast greeted you? Try. Then make it happen in a flash.
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.
This post is part of my ongoing restricted diets series with the Free People Blog BLDG 25. Since it seems this winter is hanging on until the bitter end for a lot of folks this year, I decided it was the perfect
Tomatoes and chicken simmer along with fresh onions, garlic and peppers in the slow cooker, just waiting to be amazing as soon as you walk in the door.
