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Mizuzu

Name: Mizuzu
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Rwanda
Ingredients: 4 (firm) Bananas; To taste Oil for frying; A pinch Salt

Snack

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Ripe cooking bananas fried — a Rwandan snack and side.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mizuzu is fried plantain (cooking banana) eaten in Rwanda: ripe ones whose skins are starting to blacken are cut thick and fried. Sweet with a soft, starchy texture, they're served alongside brochettes or eaten as a snack. They're also sold at markets and by the roadside.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Rwandan market stall, diagonally sliced bananas fry in oil and are lifted golden into a basket.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bananas 4 (firm)
Oil for frying To taste
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel the bananas.
Slice diagonally 1.5cm thick.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides.
Drain.
Sprinkle with salt.

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