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Congolese breakfast I've been wanting to do this post for a long time. This was the breakfast served with the tea in the video I found for my tea blog post for the countries under the name of  Congo . She was having scrambled eggs with fried plantain. I've had plantain chips before and they were pretty good. Slightly sweet, and the salt complimented the flavor. I had never cooked with plantain before, so I thought I would give it a try. I read somewhere that plantains should look like really old, rotten bananas when you use them. Lots of black on the skin. Other sources talk about using green plantains as well, so I wasn't sure which way to go. As it is, I picked up one of the darker plantains at the grocery store, then took about a week or so to use it. This is what mine looked like:  This was its good side. The other side was pretty much all black. I was kind of wondering what this would be like when I cut into it. Since you are reading this blog post, you know tha...