Hello everybody, welcome to my recipe site. Today I will show you how to make a distinctive dish, Fried green plantains. It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fried green plantains Recipe. Cut ends from each plantain with a sharp small knife, then cut a lengthwise slit through peel. Green plantains are a must for tostones.
You can cook Fried green plantains using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Fried green plantains
- Prepare of Green plantains (as many as you like).
- Prepare of Oil.
- Prepare of Adobo, garlic powder, salt.
Although fried twice (once to cook and soften, and once to ensure they are golden and crisp), the fritters are very easy to prepare.Please save the skin and try not to break it.Remove the plantains from the pan and flatten the plantains by placing a plate over the fried plantains and pressing down.Lift slices onto plate or tray to cool, and press with spatula to flatten.
Fried green plantains instructions
- Cut ends off plantain, add oil to a pan and put on medium- medium high..
- Cut along slotted indents found naturally in the plantain. Remove all the skin..
- Cut "coins" diagonally along plantain. Don't cut too thin..
- Check to make sure oil is ready by splashing some water into pan, if it bubbles you're ready! Place plantain slices into oil. About 35-45 seconds then flip over, cook 35-45 seconds on other side (light brown). Use a slotted spatula so oil can drip through..
- Remove and place on a plate with paper towel over it..
- If you don't have a plantain masher, grab a coffee cup. Use bottom of cup and smash plantain..
- Put back in frying pan for about 45-55 seconds on each side..
- Remove plantains from oil & put on a new paper towel. Sprinkle with salt, adobo & garlic powder. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce!.
A staple dish throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, tostones are crisp, flattened plantains that are often served as appetizers and side dishes Unlike sweet maduros, which are made with very ripe, almost black, yellow plantains, savory tostones are made with unripe green plantains Tostones are fried twice: The first fry sears the cut sides of the plantains, establishing a base layer of.These delicious green plantain fritters are enjoyed throughout Latin America.Some are thick and some are paper-thin, but patacones or tostones are among the most important foods to home cooks and restaurants alike.
Return to hot oil and fry again until crisp.These aren't tostones (fried green plantains).Heather's picture adequately demonstrates this recipe, the other picture is showing fried green plantains, they are different.Amarillos turn out sweet, not crunchy and darker in color when compared to green.I like to use plantains with yellow and black skins or all.
