Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, patacones or tostones with minced chicken topping. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside. Trim the end of each plantain and cut each plantain lengthwise on one side deep enough to cut through the skin but not the plantain. A Paleo friendly cookbook loaded with amazing Paleo Latin American recipes!
Patacones or Tostones with minced chicken topping is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Patacones or Tostones with minced chicken topping is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook patacones or tostones with minced chicken topping using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Patacones or Tostones with minced chicken topping:
- Get 2 plantain
- Take Salt
- Prepare Oil
- Prepare For the topping
- Prepare Minced chicken
- Take Seasoning
- Make ready Carrot
- Prepare Onion
- Prepare Ginger and black ppr paste
- Get Butter
- Prepare Scotch bonnet
There the patacones were the size of dinner plates and fried to utter taste perfection. We ate them both plain and then topped with so many different things - guacamole and fresh salsa, braised beef, pork, a bean mixture, some mango salsa, and I even had them one morning topped with rice, beans, and fried eggs. Tostones (pronounced tos-tone-ehs) and patacones (pronounced pat-a-cone-ehs) are twice-fried green plantains and they are the same dish, despite the different nomenclature. Mix the shredded chicken with the tomato sauce and set aside.
Steps to make Patacones or Tostones with minced chicken topping:
- Peel your plantain and cut it into 3 and sprinkle some salt
- Deep fry in a hot oil and allow to half fry and take it out
- Let the plantain cool for 3 minutes. Then, place the plantains on a piece of plastic wrap and cover with another piece of plastic wrap. With a flat pot cover, press well on the pieces of plantain, flattening them to ¼” thickness
- Add them back in the hot oil in a single layer (you may need to work in batches) and fry on each side.
- Your patacones or tostones are ready
- For the topping. Add butter on a pan on medium heat add onion ginger and black pepper paste and stir. Add in ur minced chicken, seasoning,salt and allow it to cook add in your carrot and keep stirring until all cooked
- You can now serve your patacones with your minced chicken as required….. I served mine with veggies/salad (with dressing)
For the patacones:Peel the plantains and cut cross-wise into ½" slices. In a medium heavy pot, add vegetable oil and heat the oil over medium high heat. Add the plantain slices to the heated oil in a single layer. Patacones (known as tostones in Central America) are twice-fried rounds of green plantain. Fried green plantain (plátano verde) is a starchy and sweet snack and they work great as an appetizer as well.
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