Recipes: How to prepare ripe plantain pancakes with ground rice, corn dough, or flour

Plantain pancakes (Tatale) are popularly made from over-ripened plantain in many spices in Ghana. 

It’s usually served with Bambara nuts or beans. 

Here is a simple way to make your homemade 'Tatale’.

Ingredients

1. 6-over ripe plantains
2. 1 cup ground rice /flour/ corn dough
3. Half cup water
4. 3 small onions
5. Salt and pepper to taste
6. 1 cup palm-oil 

This will be enough for about 5 people

Procedure

• Wash and peel the plantain
• Pound until it’s free from lumps
• Put the plantain into a bowl and add the ground rice or corn dough or flour. (I personally prefer to use flour.)
• Grind the onions and pepper together. 
• Add to the mixture and season to taste.
• Add a little palm oil to the mixture
• Add the water and mix well
• Allow standing for half an hour
• Fry in spoonfuls in a shallow pan with a little hot oil at a time.

Serve hot with beans.