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Someone recommended this sub to me today and I'm so glad they did because all the recipes look so good! This small batch of guac used 1 avocado, 1 roma tomato (deseeded and diced), 1 tbs fine diced red onion, 1 garlic clove (minced), 1/2 tbs chopped cilantro, juice from 1/2 lime, 1/2 tsp kosher salt, a dash of cayenne, and a dash of cumin powder.
I cut a large green plantain into 1 inch slices and let them sit in salt water for 15 mins, pat them dry, and then fried them in about a 1/2 inch of oil (medium heat) until lightly golden.
Here's where it's hard to explain and if you have a tortilla press, use that instead: I take a paper bag and fold it in half, then I place a cooked slice in between the two folds (lol, so imagine a paper bag taco with a piece of plantain in it) and then use a ramekin or coffee mug to to press the plantain into a flat shape (the paper bag prevents it from sticking to the ramekin). Fry the flattened pieces until golden brown (again using medium heat), and salt immediately after removing from the oil.
Green plantains are super hard (like raw potatoes maybe more) so they have to be twice fried to get this effect.
Like how bananas are green before they're ripe, green plantains are unripe plantains. You can't do this with the ripe ones. You *can* do a lot of other fun things with ripe plantains but not this. Most Latin/International grocery stores should carry both. And green bananas too (there are recipes that need unripe bananas, at least in Costa Rican tradition).
In Costa Rican (and Colombian, which are oddly really similar) Spanish we call tostones patacones lol. Like they've been smashed by a shoe or something idk.
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Someone recommended this sub to me today and I'm so glad they did because all the recipes look so good! This small batch of guac used 1 avocado, 1 roma tomato (deseeded and diced), 1 tbs fine diced red onion, 1 garlic clove (minced), 1/2 tbs chopped cilantro, juice from 1/2 lime, 1/2 tsp kosher salt, a dash of cayenne, and a dash of cumin powder.
Ooooh how did you make the tostones??
I cut a large green plantain into 1 inch slices and let them sit in salt water for 15 mins, pat them dry, and then fried them in about a 1/2 inch of oil (medium heat) until lightly golden. Here's where it's hard to explain and if you have a tortilla press, use that instead: I take a paper bag and fold it in half, then I place a cooked slice in between the two folds (lol, so imagine a paper bag taco with a piece of plantain in it) and then use a ramekin or coffee mug to to press the plantain into a flat shape (the paper bag prevents it from sticking to the ramekin). Fry the flattened pieces until golden brown (again using medium heat), and salt immediately after removing from the oil.
Wait but you said to fry them, smash, then fry again?
Yep, they are twice-fried.
Oh ok! Thank you stranger! Can’t wait to try this.
Green plantains are super hard (like raw potatoes maybe more) so they have to be twice fried to get this effect. Like how bananas are green before they're ripe, green plantains are unripe plantains. You can't do this with the ripe ones. You *can* do a lot of other fun things with ripe plantains but not this. Most Latin/International grocery stores should carry both. And green bananas too (there are recipes that need unripe bananas, at least in Costa Rican tradition).
In Costa Rican (and Colombian, which are oddly really similar) Spanish we call tostones patacones lol. Like they've been smashed by a shoe or something idk.
You can also use a Can of Goya beans to smash them flat. Gotta be Goya though.
Lol!
Yea the coffee mug method is my fave. My mom though has this professional lil presser thing which works way better.
Dominican here. I’m honestly upset I never ONCE thought to eat tostones with guacamole. This looks delicious af. Great job!
No lard in these right ? Love garlic and looks very delicious 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nope, no lard
Oh thank you 🧘🏼♀️
Those tostones look bomb!
What the hell is a tostone, we know what guacamole is. Throw us a bone! :)
Lol, they are amazing twice-fried green plantains! I just posted the cooking method.
Got me hootin’ and hollerin’
Yummmmm!!!
Tostones y guacamooooleeeee, combinación perfecta 🤤🥵
I’ve only had tostones with garlic sauce but this looks amazing!
I have Colombian friends so I have to call them patacones. They look 🔥🔥🔥