One plantain is around 120 calories and very low in fat. Tips and Notes. Ripe plantains are a lot easier to peel. After cut into, the skin will come off easily as a banana peel would. Ripe plantains are mostly yellow with some black and are slightly firm

Peeling ripe plantains is almost as easy as peeling a banana, though you'll need a knife. Peeling an unripe (green) plantain is more complicated. The way most Dominican home cooks peel unripe plantains, though, is a result of practice, and having mom

Though yellow and black plantains can be peeled and prepped much like a banana, the tough skin and sticky sap of the green plantain require a little extra effort. If you attempt to peel a green plantain like a banana, much of the pith from the thick skin