I have been really home sick, what makes me feel better is my mothers cooking. I have been wanting my mother Plantain soup. what to do? I call my mother and got her easy Planatain soup recipes. Ingredients: red onion, two green Plantains, stew meat, salt, pepper, oil, and carrots or other vegatables of your choice.
step 1:
Get your meat out of the package and I like to give my meat a little rinse. Place it in a cooking pan with salt and a little of black pepper and brown(roast) the meat . Once the meat is browned, add some water about a cup then bring it to a boil; after that low the heat so the meat would continue cook. (This step will give you a richer beef broth and tender meat).
Beef broth cooking
Peel the Plantains and put them into water immediately after peeling or they would turn black.
On a medium cooking pot put your plantains, and a cup of water with a good amount of salt to taste (about 1 teaspoon). Cover the pot and cook on medium heat. You don't want to put to much water or cook on high heat this will result in your plantains been hard (that is not what we want). Keep a watch on them once in awhile; the plantains would drink up the water and you don't want them to burn.
Once the first batch of water has reduced add another cup of water to the pan, with half of a red onion, (optional as well you could add some carrots) and a tablespoon of olive oil. put the cover back on and continue cooking till the water has reduce the second time around. Like the the picture below.
Final Step add the beef broth about a cup or more depending on how much broth you want for your soul, also some of the stew meat pieces in the pan as well. Also taste to see if the dish needs addition salt. cook it for another 10 minutes then serve.
