So, that said, this meal started with the plantain. I've never cooked that before, either, but I'm always looking to try new things, and plantain sounds like quite a good sort of carb - high in starch and low in fructose. So I planned to fry it, sliced, in coconut oil. I thought I'd do some sort of curry to go with it, and given the plantain, I thought it would be appropriate to make it a Caribbean-style curry. So I after a few look-ups I made up a sort of jerk seasoning mix - cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, chilli, thyme - and used this for a curry base with onions, coconut and tomato paste, in which I cooked some white fish.
I can't say how authentic this was. I think it was a bit too sweet; I should have used allspice, but I didn't have any. Perhaps a bit more chilli would have helped, too. All the same, it was pretty good.
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