Tostones (pronounced Toes-tone-es)

"This is a very simple side dish from Puerto Rico (actually, I think it's from the carribian in general, but I learned it in Puerto Rico) Plantains look like giant bananas (Tastes NOTHING like bananas), but taste like potatoes when cooked BUT... the blacker the plantain gets, the sweeter it tastes. This recipe calls for a very yellow plantain."
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
3
Yields:
15 PIECES
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ingredients

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directions

  • cut right through the skin og the plantains and cut them into 1 inch chunks.
  • Peel the skins off and using the back of a big spoon, flatten the plantain down.
  • Soak all the pieces in water for 10 minutes and them salt them.
  • Fry them up in corn oil and voila, Tostones.
  • A Puerto Rican Favorite.

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  1. Plantains, or platanos, is one of the foods that came to the Caribbean from Africa with the early slaves of the Spanish conquistadors. The first islands settled were Hispaniola and its sister island Puerto Rico. The water here is actually for twice fried tostones, but this recipe omits the first fry, and so is not necessary.
     
  2. If you omit the water, it will be easier to fry and avoids the splasher. Season right away after fried. For dipping use evoo( olive oil with garlic) Let me know, thi is awesome!!!
     
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I live in Rockville, MD which is 20 minutes north of Washington DC. I love to cook, read, go bike riding with my Hubby, Salsa dancing with Hubby, cook out with all our friends and travel. My favorite cookbook is one my mother wrote, From My Grandmother's Kitchen by Viviane Miner. It is a Safardic cookbook and has every single recipe my mother has ever made. I used to have a BIG black cat named Danzig, but he passed away the summer of 2005. We now have 2 cats, a calico who is mostly white (AH! White hair everywhere)and a black and white "Tuxedo" cat (He looks like he's wearing black tuxedo tails) They're names...Lilo and Stitch! And as pet-peeves go - why can't people use the ear piece for their cell phones when driving their cars?! I was never really into cooking when I was younger. Even when I was just out of college, I was living on Can openers and Mircowaves. I don't even know when the change happened. All of a sudden, I wanted to cook. I wanted to bring joy to everyone'e mouths. I wanted to be.....a chef. Well, I've come a long way from the can opener; I put it down and just never looked back. Now the microwave is just a big defroster and I use the can opener occasionally (hey, friends are friends! Just because I grew doesn't mean I had to completely dump my old friends. Right?).
 
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