Puerto Rican Plantain Tostones Recipe
Ingredients:
2 plantains,
vegetable oil for frying,
(optional ingredients for sweet sauce - mascarpone cheese, sugar, cream, nutmeg.
Recipe:
Cut 5 long slits along the skin of each plantain and soak it in water for at least 20 minutes. This way you will be able to peel the skin easily. Cut the peeled plantains to 3/4-inch thick coins and deep fry them until lightly golden. Remove them from the oil and pound them lightly with something flat to 1/3-inch thickness. Re-fry the tostones again for about 3 minutes or until golden. Remove the tostones with a slotted spoon and place them on tissue paper for a while to remove the excess oil. Make a sweet sauce from the ingredients above and drizzle it over the fried tostones. Tip: In most countries tostones are salted much like potato chips. For this particular recipe it is best to use plantains that have begun to ripen.
Plantains are very popular in the tropical countries, almost as much as the potatoes in the other regions of the world. When green, the plantains are starchy and can be cooked in similar ways as potatoes. I find that when ripe the plantains are very tasty for direct consuming.
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