Curried Chickpea Plantain Boats

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This vegan instrumentality connected Caribbean stuffed ripe plantains lives up to the sanction of the cookbook it comes from: “Natural Flava.” You overgarment the plantains – you request ripe yellow, not green, ones for this – successful a pungent spice mix, roast them until tender, past spoon a super-flavorful chickpea coconut curry implicit them. The operation of saccharine and spicy, creamy and starchy is downright irresistible.

Refrigerate leftovers for up to 1 week oregon frost for up to 3 months.

Caribbean curry pulverization and Caribbean all-purpose seasoning tin beryllium recovered successful planetary markets oregon online. Go to Latin oregon Caribbean markets for the champion enactment of plantains of antithetic levels of ripeness.

The chickpea curry and the roast plantains tin beryllium cooked separately and refrigerated for up to 1 week earlier rewarming and assembling.

Adapted from “Natural Flava” by Craig and Shaun McAnuff (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Ingredients

1 tablespoonful saccharine paprika
1 spoon dried thyme
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/2 spoon good salt
4 ample ripe plantains (all yellowish with immoderate achromatic spots, and nary greenish whatsoever), peeled
1 tablespoonful extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoonful coconut lipid (any kind)
1 tiny yellowish bulb (about 5 ounces), chopped
2 ail cloves, chopped
4 teaspoons Caribbean curry pulverization (may substitute Madras oregon different curry powder)
1 spoon grated caller ginger
One (14-ounce) tin full-fat coconut milk
One (15-ounce) tin no-salt-added chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 tablespoonful Caribbean all-purpose seasoning (may substitute low- oregon no-salt seasoning)
Fresh parsley leaves, for serving
Finely diced Scotch bonnet oregon habanero pepper, for serving (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 plantain and 1/2 cupful chickpeas)

Calories
589
Fat
31 g
Saturated Fat
23 g
Carbohydrates
80 g
Sodium
698 mg
Protein
10 g
Fiber
10 g
Sugar
31 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Natural Flava” by Craig and Shaun McAnuff (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published April 2, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026