This is my first time in this community. I hope you can appreciate with the same passion as I do the love for food. It is a root that is culturally present everywhere and is part of our lifestyle. Smells, textures, flavors that can take you back to some moment in your life and remind you of simple but unforgettable things.
Today I bring you a recipe that I have been making for some time. Little by little I have been refining and perfecting it to the point of including it in the menu of my enterprise. It is a site called El Agro Café where we try to make it kilometer zero. I have shared coffee recipes and now it is time to show all the culinary potential that we will offer to our diners.
Green Banana Basket with Meat Stuffing
For this recipe I have used the following quantities.
Ingredients
4 green Banana
3 perita tomatoes
1 onion
1/2 kg of ground beef
Salt to taste
Vegetable oil for frying**
Step 1: Peel the green plantains.
Peel the green plantains. From a banana come out of 2 to 4 baskets so you must take into account that the larger the size, the larger the final product will be. You must be careful when peeling with the knife since the plantain is green and it is more difficult to remove the peel effectively. But with some patience I know you will succeed. At the end we reserve in a bowl.
Step 2
We will chop the tomato into squares to reserve on a plate. Then we will chop the onion into squares and in a pan with a little oil begin to fry to glass point. Then we incorporate the ground beef and stir to integrate and cook add salt to taste and in my case optional you can use 1 clove of garlic to incorporate chopped and also a few drops of soy sauce. After cooking well we reserve.
Step 3
In a wave pot you are going to pour enough vegetable oil. We will heat over high heat and we will be placing in batches the plantains cut into pieces. We will begin to fry until a golden color, this will make the plantain soft and more manageable for the time of the press.
Step 4
I used a lemon squeezer to flatten and shape it into a basket. I know that there are some places that sell a similar device to make these baskets but believe me that the squeezer will be enough and you will get excellent results.
With the help of a plastic bag and spreading some oil we will take each piece of banana and we will press it with the squeezer, the result should be like the one you see in the picture a banana basket that should come off easily. We will fry them again to finish sealing and to make them as golden and crunchy as possible.
You are going to accumulate on a plate to finish.
You are going to accumulate in a plate until finished.
Step 5
This dish could not finish with the plating. First you are going to place 1 or 2 spoonfuls of the ground meat with onion, with the help of the spoon you will press to leave space to the tomato that is the following ingredient that you are going to place. Place in an orderly fashion on a plate until the dish is finished.
Enjoy
This dish is an adaptation of Patacón, a dish originally from Maracaibo in Venezuela that actually has different ingredients and the plantain instead of turning it into a basket is totally crushed and on top of it is placed the garnish of shredded meat, sauces and grated hard cheese. This version is simpler and healthier. This is the dish that became Tapas or starter in our place. What do you think?
