Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, fried green plantains. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Preparation Cut ends from each plantain with a sharp small knife, then cut a lengthwise slit through peel. Hey love so many of you have been asking over on my main channel for this video on HOW TO FRY GREEN PLANTAINS so here goes. 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! Plantain, believed to have originated in southeast Asia refers to the cooking banana, cultivars of the banana plant, which produces an edible fruit that is full of starch and rarely eaten raw.

Fried green plantains is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Fried green plantains is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fried green plantains using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Fried green plantains:

1. Get Green plantains (as many as you like)
2. Prepare Oil
3. Make ready Adobo, garlic powder, salt

Fried green plantains - tostones - are crispy and savory, often served in place of fried potatoes. Fried sweet plantains topped with cinnamon and sugar make a wonderful dessert. In this classic Latin American fried green plantain dish known as tostones, unripe plantains are sliced, smashed and fried twice, until golden. Crispy Fried Green Plantains made with green plantain, a staple food in both the Caribbean and Latin America.

Instructions to make Fried green plantains:

1. Cut ends off plantain, add oil to a pan and put on medium- medium high.
2. Cut along slotted indents found naturally in the plantain. Remove all the skin.
3. Cut "coins" diagonally along plantain. Don't cut too thin.
4. Check to make sure oil is ready by splashing some water into pan, if it bubbles you're ready! Place plantain slices into oil. About 35-45 seconds then flip over, cook 35-45 seconds on other side (light brown). Use a slotted spatula so oil can drip through.
5. Remove and place on a plate with paper towel over it.
6. If you don't have a plantain masher, grab a coffee cup. Use bottom of cup and smash plantain.
7. Put back in frying pan for about 45-55 seconds on each side.
8. Remove plantains from oil & put on a new paper towel. Sprinkle with salt, adobo & garlic powder. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce!

In this classic Latin American fried green plantain dish known as tostones, unripe plantains are sliced, smashed and fried twice, until golden. Crispy Fried Green Plantains made with green plantain, a staple food in both the Caribbean and Latin America. Green Plantain is considered a vegetable when green and fruit when ripened (turns yellow). Smashed twice-fried green plantains served with shredded chicken loaded with buffalo sauce, with lime and parsley on a black plate with cutlery, on a dark concrete background, close-up. Fried green plantains are flattened into a bun shape as they cook and take the place of the bread in this delicious steak sandwich, another type of jibarito.

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