INGREDINET: ripe
plantain (very soft one), beans gari, palm oil, flour, pepper, salt, tomatoes
and onion.
METHOD (KAAKILO): firstly you will peel your plantain into a
mortar and pound it with a pistil until it melt and becomes very soft. You then
put it in an empty dry bowl, after you grind your pepper and onion and add it
to the pounded plantain in the bowl and mix them together and then you add an
amount of flour and mix together to become thick that you can easily dish it
out into the oil. There after you pour an amount of oil into frying pan and put
it on fire, when it gets hot, then you dish the mixture in small size, put it
into the oil and you fry it. CAUTION: do not turn over as soon as you put it in
the oil. You must wait for a while. You apply the same method to the remaining
mixture till you finish frying all.
NB: the amount of flour, pepper and onion you will use must
depend on the quantity of the pounded plantain. Especially the flour, the
mixture is not supposed to be too thick.
METHOD 2(BEANS): you get an amount of beans wash it very
well, and then you put in a saucepan and boil it. You have to be adding water
to it from time to time until it well cooked and soft for consumption. After
the beans are cooked you then pour an amount of palm oil into a saucepan hen
you grind the pepper, onion and tomatoes and add it to the oil. Put it on fire
for some few minuets and take it off. So now your kaakilo is ready, as
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| The beans |
well as
your beans and palm oil. So you dish out and serve it as you desire. You can
decide to add gari or not, depending on how you like it.
