🇳🇬 How to Make Boli

Craving Boli? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Boli at home, in about 25 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 large plantains, very ripe — the skin should be black-blotched, not yellow
• Sauce: 2 tbsp groundnut paste
• 1 tsp cayenne
• a pinch of salt
• roasted groundnuts, to serve

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Choose plantains that are almost too ripe. A yellow plantain roasts to something starchy and disappointing.
2. Roast them whole in their skins over charcoal, or in a 220°C oven, turning every 5 min.
3. They are ready when the skin is blackened and splits and the flesh gives completely to a squeeze — 20 min or so.
4. Peel while hot. The blackened skin should lift away in one piece.
5. Mix the groundnut paste with cayenne and salt, loosening with a spoon of hot water to a drizzle.
6. Serve the plantain torn open with the sauce and a handful of roasted groundnuts. Boli and groundnut is what Lagos eats standing up, on the way home.