plantains

The trick to sweet fried plantains is to let them get over ripe, sowhen you fry them they are soft and mushy on the inside, carmelizedon the outside, and super sweet all the way through.

With Latin Food This Good, La Strada Doesn’t Need to Serve Pizza | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2007

Remove the plantains from the oven and serve at once topped with cream.

Plantains with Vanilla Cream: Postre de Plátanos con Vainilla 2003

Tubers -- as we call plantains, yams, yucca, potatoes, squash, and others -- are important sources of nutrients, and they are also essential dishes in the Cuban diet.

Castro Speech to PCC Provincial Assembly 1991

{28} Along the Coast, and in other parts of Africa, the coarser, flat-sided kinds of banana are usually called plantains, the name banana being reserved for the finer sorts, such as the little

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

Yet they entered into trade with us for rice, hens, oranges, lemons, and another kind of fruit called plantains; but held every thing very high, and brought only small quantities.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

3 Along the Coast, and in other parts of Africa, the coarser, flat-sided kinds of banana are usually called plantains, the name banana being reserved for the finer sorts, such as the little “silver banana.”

Travels in West Africa 2003

The addition of the plantains is supposed to cost $.75, but they didn’t charge me, so maybe it’s free.

Bread Market Cafe (and the Plantain Burrito) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2006

A quick, flavorful pork-and-raisin braise makes an almost-classic Latin American topping for roasted plantains, which is served like an open-face sandwich.

The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010

In the heat of battle, I tested some wild weapons -- a flamethrower to toast weeds known as plantains and a drill attachment called the Dandelion Terminator that rips out the hearts of those yellow intruders.

The Absentee Lawnlord 2008

I would have been okay with a everything else, but the plantains were a crash-landing.

Ticketless Travel, but Make Sure it's Round Trip - Versailles 2005