Wash and peel plantain, cut into 2 and put in your pot

Add water to the level of the plantain

And place on your gas, allow it to boil for 5minutes

Add pepper and salt and allow to boil for 15minutes so it can be soft

Check at intervals and bring it down

Use your spoon to pick one after the other and put it in a clean mortar

Then pound till it's smooth and ok

Then add your red oil and pound again so the oil can mix very well

After which you scoop it into a flat plate and dress it with the red oil

It will have the shape of pounded yam, now your pounded ripe plantain is ready

It goes with stew or sauce.