Tag: appetizer
Cuban Pulled Pork Taquitos
Cuban Pulled Pork Taquitos
Here is a great use for leftover Cuban pulled pork. Roll them up in corn or flour tortillas with your favorite cheese. Bake in the oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Top with your favorite toppings. That simple.
Ingredients
- 1 lb cuban pulled pork
- 8 corn or flour tortillas lightly fried
- your favorite cheese
- sofrito
- sour cream
- avocado sliced
Instructions
- Add a heaping tbsp of the pulled pork down the center of the tortillas. Top with your favorite cheese.
- Just like so.
- Roll them them up really tight. Do not like the edges.
- Place seam side down in a lightly greased baking dish.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Serve with a little sofrito, sour cream, and sliced avocado.
Plantain Fritters
Plantain Fritters
The plantain fritters are super easy to make; and are vegan, paleo friendly, and gluten free if you use rice flour. These can also be made sweet; replacing the onion, garlic, green onion, parsley, and cayenne with cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla.
Equipment
- Blender or food processor
Ingredients
- 3 ripe plantains
- 1 cup whole wheat or rice flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1/2 tsp ginger grated
- 2 tbsp onion finely chopped
- 2 tbsp green onion finely chopped
- 1 tbsp parsley finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- In a blender or food processor, lightly chopped up the plantains until there are no more lumps. If they are really ripe, you can smash them with a potato masher.
- Addthe remaining ingredients to the mashed plantains.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Add 2” of cooking oil to a pot over medium high heat. The oil temp should read 350 degrees. Using a cookie dropper, drop balls of the plantain dough into the hot oil. Make sure to not overcrowd the pot. These will take about 6 minutes to fry. Drain grease on a paper towel.
- Serve with dip consisting of 2/3 mayo/ 1/3 sriracha.
Tsukune
Tsukune
Tsukune are little chicken meatballs sautéed then finished in a sweet and savory sauce. These are sometimes grilled on skewers and served as an appetizer like yakitori. These are really easy to make and require very little prep and cooking time. If you can’t find potato starch, breadcrumbs are an acceptable substitute.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 1 lb ground chicken thigh
- 1/4 cup sautéed onion cooked to golden brown
- 1 large egg beaten
- 2 tsp ginger minced
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 5 tbsp potato starch
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Sauce
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp rice cooking wine
- 3 tbsp water
- 1/2 tsp potato starch
Garnish
- green onion finely chopped
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine ground chicken, egg, onion, ginger, salt, and potato starch.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Heat up cooking oil in a sauté pan over medium high heat. Using a cookie dropper, drop scoops of the meatball mix into the oil. Make sure to not overcrowd. You might have to cook these in 2 batches. I yielded 20 meatballs out of this recipe.
- Cook the meatballs for 4-5 minutes a side. Take out of the pan and set aside.
- In a small bowl, mix together all of the sauce ingredients.
- In the same sauté pan, add the sauce over medium heat. Cook for 1 minute. Add in the meatballs.
- Cook for no more than 2 minutes, tossing the meatballs, making sure that they are evenly coated in the sauce.
- Serve over steamed rice. Garnish with green onions.
