Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tostones. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tostones is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tostones is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Ask for Plantains at the supermarket in my experience they are qualitatively different than bananas, dont exactly taste great raw. they are longer, firmer, like a. Use the green plaintains as a savory side- as it is not sweet yet.. There's TOSTONES which you fry using green plaintains.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tostones using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tostones:
- Get 2 plantains
- Get 1 tbs salt
- Take 2 cups water
- Make ready Vegetable oil
Most commonly known as tostones, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras and Venezuela, they are also known as tachinos or chatinos (Cuba), platano frito or frito verde (Dominican Republic), bananes. Tostones is the plural of tostón, which is what we still call a single one. Tostón was a Spanish coin used during the colonial period, and later in post-colonial Mexico. The name itself comes from teston (or testoni [heads]) another coin used earlier in France and Italy.
Instructions to make Tostones:
- Cut plantains on each end. Cut down length of plantain. Peel plantain SLOWLY. Cut one inch apart at the diagonal. Rinse in saltwater
- Put vegetable oil in a pan and fill to cover half of plantain. Heat vegetable oil until a light bubble. ATTENTION: Water and Oil do not mix well. Take caution when adding to pan place plantain flat in pan. Leave until golden, flipping as needed.
- Smash plantains. Place back in oil. Heat to Med-High. Flip as needed until golden brown. (If you do not have a tool to do this, smash it between insides of plantain peels)
- Top with salt, oil and garlic, chicken soup, whatever you like. They're like french fries.
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. Get Tostones Recipe from Food Network. With a sharp small knife cut ends from each plantain and cut a lengthwise slit through skin. I LOVE tostones, but I'm Puerto Rican so it's a must I like them thinner though, thinner and crispy drools here in Puerto Rico you can even find them at Chinese restaurants. They make the best garlic tostones!
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