pantacones

Name: Pantacones
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Latin American
Ingredients: - 2 large green plantains, peeled, cut into 2" pieces; - olive oil, light or extra virgin, for frying; - sprinkle of sea salt, fine

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Baby Kato

Beautiful Shore Country, NB

Updated on Jul 5, 2017

When cooking with plantains you want them to be ripe. A ripe plantain is soft and sweeter, the sugars in the plantain will caramelize as they fry, resulting in a crisp crust, that is delicious. Unripe plantains are hard and bland.

Rate

prep time 10 Min

cook time 10 Min

method Pan Fry

yield 4 serving(s)

Ingredients

- 2 large green plantains, peeled, cut into 2" pieces
- olive oil, light or extra virgin, for frying
- sprinkle of sea salt, fine

How To Make pantacones

Step 1

Add sufficient oil to cover the bottom of a frying pan. Heat the oil on high heat; then lower the temperature to medium and add the plantain pieces.

Step 2

Fry on both sides for three minutes per side. Watch carefully so they don't burn. Scoop them out and put aside to cool and drain on a wire rack. When cooled, using a small glass, gently crush the plantains, and re-fry them to your desired crispness. Place them back on the rack and salt to taste. They are ready to eat now...
Step 3

Note: You can enjoy them as a snack or serve them as a side. Personally I love them with rice and peas or mixed into scrambled eggs with fried onions.
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