Tag: Latin American
Maduros (Sweet Fried Plantains)
Maduros (Sweet Fried Plantains)
Maduros are fried sweet plantains that are commonly eaten all over Caribbean and Latin American countries. When purchasing plantains, you want ripened ones that look completely black. If they are not ripened, they will taste similar to fried potatoes and won’t be sweet. When fried, sweet plantains caramelize and taste almost dessert like.
Ingredients
- ripe plantains peeled; sliced 1” thick
- vegetable oil for frying
- sea salt
Instructions
- Slice the plantains 1” thick. Pat dry.
- Heat up a 1/4” vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add in the plantains.
- Fry the plantains for 5-6 minutes a side until browned and caramelized. Remove from the skillet and lightly season with sea salt.
How To Make A Mango Rose
How To Make A Mango Rose
This mango rose may look fancy, but it’s as easy as it gets to make and very satisfying. Mango season runs May-September; and right now is the perfect time to buy them. If you were to go to Mexico, this preparation is a very common and popular street food snack. Peeled mangos get turned into roses, sprayed with lime juice, and covered with Tajin seasoning. Tajin can be found at just about every grocery store. It consists of dried ground chili peppers, dried lime juice, and salt. Sprinkled on a mango, it gives a perfect contrast of sweet, salty, sour, and spicy.
Servings: 1
Equipment
- vegetable peeler
- chop stick
- paring knife
Ingredients
- 1 sweet yellow mango ripened
- lime juice
- tajin seasoning
Instructions
- Place your mango on a chopstick and peel with a peeler.
- Using a paring knife, start cutting petals at the bottom of the mango at a 45 degree angle; cutting to the core.
- Work your way cutting the petals to the top of the mango. Place in a tall glass and squeeze lime juice over the mango.
- Sprinkle the tajin seasoning all over the mango.
Arrachera (Mexican Skirt Steak)
Serve the skirt steak on corn tortillas with cilantro, onion, jalapeños, and your favorite hot sauce.
Belizean Grilled Chicken Wings
Belizean Jerk Chicken Wings
I was recently on vacation in the beautiful country of Belize and picked up some jerk seasoning from a farmers market. Belizeans have their own version that differs from Jamaican jerk seasoning. The extra ingredients that aren’t part of Jamaican jerk are dried oregano and orange peel. In addition, they use allspice leaves instead of ground allspice berries. Since you’ll have a problem finding the leaves, ground will do. I chose to use wings, but any pieces of chicken will work great. This seasoning is also really good on pork, turkey, fish and shrimp.
Equipment
- chimney starter
- charcoal
- grill
Ingredients
- 8 large whole chicken wings
Belizean Jerk Dry Rub Seasoning
- 1 tbsp habanero pepper powder
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tbsp dried thyme
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp cumin
- 2 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 2 tsp allspice
- 2 tsp ground dried orange peel
- 2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Mix together the jerk ingredients.
- Liberally season the wings. Let marinate for 8 hours; preferably overnight.
- Let the charcoal get grey in a chimney starter. Pour the grey charcoal into the grill. Place the wings over the charcoal.
- Sear the wings on all sides for 10 minutes in total.
- Pull the wings off to the side away from the charcoal. Cover the grill with the vent open. Grill for 20 more minutes; occasionally turning to cook evenly.
Serve the wings with fried plantains; sweet or savory.
