Recipe Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 whole pork tenderloins, trimmed 3 ripe plantains, peeled and cut lengthwise Salt and pepper to taste. Cooking …
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Mashed plantains make for a tasty Cuban-inspired side dish. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sprinkle plantains with salt and cayenne; drizzle with oil to coat. Arrange, cut sides down, on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast until cut sides of plantains begin to caramelize, about 20 minutes. Turn plantains; roast 10 minutes more.
The other interesting thing about Cuban sweet plantains is that they also don’t really follow a recipe… you just take very very very ripe plantains and cook them in either oil or lard. I suppose you could use shortening as well, but we don’t really use that very much in our house, and I’ve never seen my mother-in-law use it when she makes maduros.
Soft, with peels that are mostly brown or black, plantains (platanos maduros, in Spanish) are available in Latin-American markets and many grocery stores.