What is another name for plantain chips?

Plantain Chips, also known as Igbekere by the Yoruba tribe of Western Nigerian and Kpekere by the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria, are easily the simplest plantain recipe to pull off. They are very tasty and extremely popular. The preparation of Plantain chips is pretty basic. Let’s get to it…. Ingredients: Unripe Plantain Vegetable oil Turmeric (Optional) Cayenne Pepper (Optional) Salt First peel the Plantain. Slice into thin slices using a slicer or a sharp knife… Next, add water into a deep bowl, mix in some Turmeric and Salt… Add the sliced Plantains, leave for 5 minutes then sieve out the water mixture using a colander, then transfer Plantain unto a tray, blot dry using a paper towel, make sure you get them as dry as possible otherwise your chips will turn out soft and not crunchy. Then sprinkle some Cayenne Pepper on the chips, this is also optional. Now add Vegetable oil into a wok or deep frying pan, enough oil to deep fry the Plantain chips.

Chifles in Thailand are known as ‘banana chips‘. Chifles, fried plantain chips, are a side dish, snack food, or finger food of Ecuador, Thailand, and Peru. In Peru chifle is typical of the Piura Region. It is known as chipilo in Bolivia; plataninas in Guatemala; nenthrakayyi varuthathu or plantain chips in Kerala, South India; mariquitas in Cuba; in Puerto Rico platanutres, platanitos in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, and tostones or tostoncitos in Venezuela. More recently, both ordinary and specially flavoured chifles have entered the European market as "plantain chips", produced and distributed by Fyffes of Ireland.