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1. Peel the plantains: Cut off the ends using a sharp knife, score the skin on four sides, then use your fingers to pry the skin loose. 2. Cut peeled plantains into one-inch pieces.
Tostones are twice-fried plantain patties that are crispy and salty on the outside, sweet on the inside and served with a mojo sauce. To start, you’ll want to make sure sure you use green ...
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Green (unripe) plantains are peeled, sliced lengthwise, diagonally, or widthwise, and then fried twice. [3] The raw slices of plantains are fried for one to sixty minutes on each side until they are golden in color, and removed and patted to remove excess cooking oil.
Rellenito comes from the verb rellenar which means to stuff or fill. [3] The suffix ito in Spanish is known as a diminutive. Hence rellenitos de plátano could be translated as "little stuffed plantain things".
According to one legend, the dish was invented in the 1920s by Fidencia Quiroga, who was known locally as "Tía Lencha" (Aunt Lencha). [1] [8] [10] Although there is minimal evidence that the dish originated with her, there is little doubt that she popularized it when she began to serve it in her restaurant to construction workers building the nearby Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway in 1928. [11]
Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou / ˈ f u ˌ f u / foo-foo listen ⓘ) is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine. [1] [2] It is a Twi word that originates from the Akans in Ghana.The word has been expanded to include several variations of the pounded meal found in other African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the ...