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The name comes from the grated green and yellow plantain pieces forming little legs that stick out of the fritter itself, which ends up looking like a prickly spider on a plate. Alcapurrias are a traditional snack with masa dough made from grated green banana, yautía , seasoned with lard, annatto and stuffed with picadillo .
Ripe and green plantains together is the most popular choice. The trifongo is any combination of three starches fried and mashed together. Most popular is cassava with green and ripe plantains, but batata and breadfruit may be used. Mofongo stuffed with shrimp (camarón in Spanish) is called camarofongo.
Hangetsu-giri; half-moon cut, cut into round slices which are cut in half. Aname-giri ; diagonal cut, cut at a 45-degree angle to make oval slices. Icho-giri; gingko leaf cut, cut into round slices which are cut into quarters. Koguchigiri; small edge cuts into tiny round slices. Kushigatagiri; wedge cut or comb cut. Kakugiri; cut into cubes.
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Both ripe and unripe plantains are used for this type of chip preparation. The chips may be coated with masala or jaggery to form spicy and sweet variations. Plain banana and plantain chips are called pachkkaya varuthathu and kaya upperi , respectively; sweet jaggery-banana chips are called sharkara upperi or sharkkara varatty .
Guineos Verdes en Fricasé – Green bananas cooked in a spicy, tomato-based fricassee sauce with recaíto, capers, chilies, and olives. Macabeos – Green bananas boiled and mashed with annatto oil and a small amount of uncooked green banana. They are then filled with the meat of choice, made into small balls, and deep-fried.
Tostones made from unripe breadfruit called tostones de pana are served in Puerto Rico. The same method applies. Unripe breadfruit is cut into chunks, deep-fried, flattened, and then fried again. They are popular throughout the island and are sold frozen pre-made by Goya Foods, Mi Cosecha PR, and Titán products of Puerto Rico.
Fe'i bananas can be distinguished from other kinds of cultivated bananas and plantains in a number of ways. They have highly coloured sap, pink through to bright magenta and dark purple. The bracts of the flowering spike (inflorescence) are bright shiny green rather than dull red or purple. The flowering and fruiting stem is more or less ...