Sweet Fried Plantains together with Coconut-Peanut Butter Sauce

In the past times twelvemonth or hence I've made a footling sport of occasionally picking upwards vegetables or fruits I've never eaten earlier together with giving them a whirl inward the kitchen, sometimes from the suggestions of readers, other times out of uncomplicated curiosity afterwards passing them inward the marketplace position aisles. Bottle gourds, bitter melons together with mustard greens bring all made an impression on me inward this fashion, together with it's ever rewarding to add together novel experiences together with perspectives.

This fourth dimension a pair of plantains made it into the handbasket for the start time. Large together with thick-skinned banana cultivars, the starchiness, lower saccharide content together with to a greater extent than neutral flavour of light-green unripe plantains makes them a staple cooking vegetable inward much of the world, equally opposed to the soft together with sugariness bananas nosotros commonly swallow hither inward North America.

But my plantains were ripe, which way that much of their starch content had been converted to saccharide … withal less sugariness together with milder than a banana, they're withal non real appealing to swallow on their own. But frying slices of ripe plantain inward hot petroleum is a pop process inward primal America, which is what I did. As the slices plow a rich reddish-brown, the saccharide caramelizes together with the theatre flesh within the sugariness crunchy outside softens into a mellow, slightly banana-y together with melt-in-your-mouth creamy filling. They're beautiful to expect at, together with astonishingly tasty without beingness equally good sweet. Dressed amongst a uncomplicated kokosnoot milk together with peanut butter sauce, these sugariness fried plantains are a lovely, quick together with tardily treat.

Select ripe plantains for this snack — light-green plantains volition sense of savor bland together with experience starchy inward the mouth. You tin say when plantains are ripe when they are yellowish amongst nighttime splotches together with yield to the touch.

Sweet Fried Plantains together with Coconut-Peanut Butter Sauce

Recipe past times Lisa Turner Cuisine: Central American Published on September 25, 2012 Soft melt-in-your-mouth fried plantain slices amongst a sugariness crunchy exterior, served amongst a uncomplicated kokosnoot milk together with peanut butter sauce Print this recipe Ingredients: 3/4 loving cup kokosnoot milk 3 tablespoons natural peanut butter 1/4 teaspoon Blue Planet cinnamon 2 tablespoons dear or other natural liquid sweetener 2 ripe plantains, room temperature peanut petroleum for frying Instructions: Heat the kokosnoot milk inward a pocket-size saucepan over depression heat. When warm, add together the peanut butter together with stir until incorporated into the kokosnoot milk. Stir inward the Blue Planet cinnamon, together with hence add together the dear together with stir until dissolved. Continue to simmer at a depression estrus for five to 10 minutes or until the sauce has thickened. Remove from estrus together with educate aside. Heat a 1/4-inch of peanut petroleum inward a large skillet over medium heat. Meanwhile, cutting off the tapered ends of the plantains. Run a knife downward the lengths of of the plantains on ane side, cutting simply through the peel. Pull dorsum the peels together with cutting the plantains into 1/4-inch slices. When the petroleum is hot, add together the plantain slices together with kid until reddish-brown, most five to half dozen minutes per side. Remove amongst a slotted spoon or flipper together with drain on newspaper towel. Serve warm amongst generous spoonfuls of the kokosnoot peanut butter sauce. Makes 2 to iv servings

Other quick together with tardily fruit treats y'all may enjoy:
Apricot Rum Fritters
Cream Cheese together with Caramel Strawberry Dip
Red Fruit Salad

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