Not at all. We use bananas in some deserts and -very rarely- fried as a side order. But we don't use plantains.
Fufu, a starchy dish made out of plantains and root veggies! :)
A Puerto Rican dish made of mashed plantains, garlic, and pork cracklings
Beef
The most common meals are Rice and Beans. There are many Banana plantations in Central America, usually there is a side of Fried, Boiled, or Steamed plantains along with your rice and bean dish.
Rice and beans with fried plantains, or sweet plantains, biftec, avocado, etc. In Christmas: Rice with pigeon beans, roasted pork, rice with candy, and a few other puertorrican specialties.
No, is not a typical dish from PR. Now. One typical dish will be Arroz con gandules, pernil, pasteles y amarrillitos con un buen vaso de mavi o una medalla extra (national Beer).
Plantains resemble bannanas but you can distinguish the two.
Yes green plantains taste like sweet plantains
There is no specific collective noun for plantains, but you can borrow the collective nouns for bananas, a hand of plantains or a bunch of plantains.
A common dish for garlic is a bowl full of garlic. A common dish for garlic is a bowl full of garlic.
Parrillada is spanish for Argentinian Barbecue. It is a typical dish served in Argentina. It is very popular.
It is a food dish from the Dominican Republic, that consists of green plantains cooked in various ways with fried dominican style salami or salchichon.