Fried sweet plantains have a lightly crisped ... celebrated for their simplicity and flavor. Unlike crispy green plantain chips, these sweet plantains have a tender interior surrounded by a ...

Plantains are cooked green, semi-ripe or fully-ripe ... They act as a foil to rich flavours such as spicy meat or bean stews. Salted fried plantain chips are a popular snack in the Caribbean.

I mean, sometimes bananas are green when you buy them ... the way you’d use a vegetable. Plantains can be sauteed, fried, baked, boiled, or cooked just about any way you can imagine.

The Boricua specialty — a heaping mound of mashed fried green plantains studded with crisp pork cracklings — has many incarnations across the island: drenched in tomato sauce, loaded with ...

La bandara – the national dish of red beans, stewed meats, rice and fried green plantains – is a must-try, and samaná's pescado con coco (fish with coconut sauce) will be appreciated by any ...