What to cook with plantain

57 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use plantain. 37 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Colombian, Puerto Rican and African recipes.

recipes use it: 57
are built around it: 37
median total time: 35 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 22

Recipes built around plantain

With plantain, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with plantain

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with plantain, out of 57 recipes.

Garlic51% of recipes
Tomato33% of recipes
Onion42% of recipes
Avocado14% of recipes
Olive oil30% of recipes
Cumin21% of recipes
Rice14% of recipes
Bell pepper14% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 50 recipes that give an amount, the median is 2. Half of them fall between 1 to 3.

Where plantain shows up

Cuisines

Colombian11
Puerto Rican9
African6
Venezuelan6

Courses

Side19
Dinner14
Lunch7

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.