Do you like plantains? Are you looking for information on how to make friend plantains? Plantains look like bananas, but are bigger than bananas. And, unlike bananas, plantains are usually eaten cooked.
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Many people have asked me how to cook plantains. This recipe for fried plantains is very easy and it calls for very few ingredients. And the best thing about this recipe is that the results taste great!
Before we talk about cooking plantains, let’s talk about how to pick them. When I buy bananas, I buy the ones that are slightly green and mostly yellow. I try to get the best looking bananas.
However, with plantains, you want to buy them when they are ripe, so you want to buy plantains that are yellow and black, like in this picture:
This recipe is very simple. You will need just a few ingredients for it.
Ingredients For Fried Plantains:
5 Ripe Plantains
Oil for frying
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
Tools You Will Need To Make Fried Plantains
How To Make Fried Plantains
Here is how to cook plantains. Peel plantains and slice them diagonally on a cutting board.
Heat up the oil in the saute pan. Once the oil is hot, add plantain pieces to the frying pan and fry until they are golden brown on both sides.
Once plantains are golden brown on both sides, remove them from the saute pan and repeat with remaining plantains.
Once all the plantains are fried, return all the plantains to the saute pan and add the maple syrup. Carefully mix the plantains and syrup and cook for about 30 seconds on a small fire.
Plantains are great as a side dish. Serve these fried plantains with meat – pork, beef, chicken.
Here are more easy recipes to check out: Watermelon feta salad, Chick Pea Salad, Cabbage Salad, Greek Style Potato Salad Recipe.
If you want to cook them even faster, you can pop them in the microwave. Just cut off the ends and a slit down the skin and stick the whole thing in the microwave for about 5 minutes (less if they are *really* ripe). So yummy!!
i know this isn’t a healthy suggestion, per se, but cooking them in a little butter yields knee-weakening results.. i say, screw cholesterol, and just do it anyway!