Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, tostones (fried plantain). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
There's TOSTONES which you fry using green plaintains. Tostones are crispy, savory, salty, golden coins of pure deliciousness. Popular throughout the Caribbean, twice-fried plantains are a snack that will make you feel like you're walking on sunshine.
Tostones (Fried Plantain) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tostones (Fried Plantain) is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have tostones (fried plantain) using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tostones (Fried Plantain):
- Get 1 Green Plantain
- Prepare 1 Frying oil
- Take 1 salt or adobo
- Take 1 can of beans to make tge plantain into tostones.
These fried green plantains known as Patacones or Tostones depending on where you are in the world, are one of our favorite appetizers or snacks! I feel this tostones recipe should probably come with some sort of a warning, as in a possible When I first started loving on these delicious slices of fried plantain, it never actually occurred to me that they. Tostones - also known as patacones or fried green plantains - are made Air Fryer Tostones (Twice Fried Plantains). Tostones are a staple in Latin American countries and the Caribbean.
Instructions to make Tostones (Fried Plantain):
- Peel your plantain.
- Cut it into chunks; roughly a little thicker than an inch thick. (One good decent sized plantain should yield around 7-8 chunks; if you like your tostones bigger you can cut the chunks bigger)
- Place them into a pan with hot oil that is deep enough to cover them. Once inside you might want to lower your temp to a medium, because they can burn quick or cook only on the outside. You want them to be light brown and cooked through before your remove them.
- Once removed from the oil let them cool down to the point you can grab them.
- Now that they're cooler you can squash them. Press down on the chunks of plantain one by one with the bottom of a can. (I use a can cause I find it convenient, but you can use something else with a flat surface or even a tostonero if you have or can find one at a store) They should be round and flat, but not too flat. Don't worry if they don't look perfect.
- Return your tostones to hot oil until they become golden brown and crisp. Be sure to keep an eye on them, they can burn fast.
- Take them out and top them with salt or adobo. (Fyi: My mother in law taught me another way to salt them. After you squish them and before you refry them you can dip them in salted water and once done you won't need to add salt. I think it makes them crispier as well.. Either way is good.)
Tostones, or pan-fried green plantains, are practically the Cuban national dish. Soaking the tostones in salt water before the final fry makes them crunchier outside and moister inside. Easy recipe for homemade patacones or tostones, a popular Latin American appetizer or side dish made with twice fried slices of green plantains. So garlic tostones are basically fried plantains that have been pre-soaked in a garlic water to give them extra flavor. And yes, I'm referring to the TJs that.
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