a banana related question

[ratcreature]

I have a bunch of bananas that for some reason have just failed to turn from green to yellow, despite waiting quite a bit longer than that usually takes.

Could I cook or roast these unripe and just use them as a starchy thing, as if they were plantains? Would that work? Or would they still taste as gross as raw green bananas? I dislike that mouth coating feeling you get if you do try to eat them green.

I'm particularly thinking of oven roasting them in their skin in hopes to get that off more easily, but I never tried this.

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

Fascinating!

Next time we can shop I'll have to get green bananas and try it myself!

[ratcreature]

It's not going to be a favorite of mine, but certainly better than wasting a bunch of bananas (organic & fair trade ones at that, so not the cheapest either). I'm trying the bag method with others, to see whether I might get them to ripen after all, because I still like bananas better as a sweet fruit than as a starchy vegetable.