Fry Plaintain

[Arch_Angel]

Is there a way to fry plaintain without all the oil? I use vegetable oil, but I still dislike all that oil soaking into the plaintain. Is there another way of getting that nice fry plaintain without all that oil??

I usually put the plaintains in a dish that is layered with napkins, so that it soaks up some of the oil from the plaintains, after I fry it.

I'm talking about ripe plaintain by the way.

[Cocoa]

LOL! Ummm you and some food problems. You can eat eeh. :D

Anyway, use lard or nuff butter. Either way, you need nuff oil to fry it.

[Arch_Angel]

Well, I like to cook. And I want to learn. I got nobody to show me how to cook. :p

Nuff butter? hmmm

[chany86]

i donno, but try baking them. i know u want em fried but if u bake in a lightly greased pan (like with some low fat cooking spray, it may give u similar results to fried plantain...i donno if that'll work. sounds feasible. this is what i'd do:

grease a flat baking tin with low fat spay (like Pam)
cover the tin with the plantain with foil and bake (temperature..i donno, 250 maybe???)
do it till it tender
it gonna be soggy so remove the foil and put it back in to get crispy (ripe plantain crispy wen it fry or is di green ones??)...

i'dda try dat. but nuthin gives that nice cholestoral-heart-failure flavour like fry food, so it prolly still aint go taste good. i'll search some recipes for yah and post em.

[Arch_Angel]

i donno, but try baking them. i know u want em fried but if u bake in a lightly greased pan (like with some low fat cooking spray, it may give u similar results to fried plantain...i donno if that'll work. sounds feasible. this is what i'd do:

grease a flat baking tin with low fat spay (like Pam)
cover the tin with the plantain with foil and bake (temperature..i donno, 250 maybe???)
do it till it tender
it gonna be soggy so remove the foil and put it back in to get crispy (ripe plantain crispy wen it fry or is di green ones??)...

i'dda try dat. but nuthin gives that nice cholestoral-heart-failure flavour like fry food, so it prolly still aint go taste good. i'll search some recipes for yah and post em.
Very interesting chany. I might try that if nobody else has a tried and true way. :)

[Leina]

personally i think it would be better if you just fried them cuz if you bake them then it is going to taste different just try to cut down on the amount of oil you use, but in doing so you have to monitor it carefully so a not to let the plantain scorch(if a so it spell)

[virus_ncu]

try using the nun-stick spay called PAM. u dont have to use any oil.

[nuhsenutten]

u just have to keep putting the plaintains on the napkins man....no oil.......no plaintain :icon_lol:

[chany86]

AA its tried and true!!!

did it my way (ok, my mom did it once and i asked her how she done 'em), but i think the only reason it tastes WOW was cuzof the garlic flavoured PAM spray...other than that, good ole cooking oil and napkin's the way to go (dont try baking the green ones- theyre cooked, they just white and soft)

laughs. i love cooking!!

[Ricky]

u just have to keep putting the plaintains on the napkins man....no oil.......no plaintain :icon_lol:

True! True!.....the non stick frying pans do the trick but it just no taste the same.......no oil no plantain fi true. :eusa_clap

[Drew]

try adding some cinnamon to the plantain, it helps with the greesyness.

[nuhsenutten]

isnt that gonna change the taste....cinnamon kinda storng

[Drew]

it will change the taste a little, but all you have to do is sprinkle a little on one side of the plantain. when you flip it, the excess will drop in the oil and spread all over the plantain.

[dyllon]

it will change the taste a little, but all you have to do is sprinkle a little on one side of the plantain. when you flip it, the excess will drop in the oil and spread all over the plantain.

I think i might try that 1.

[Manu]

LOL...Drew seems a bit house broken....lol

[virus_ncu]

isnt that gonna change the taste....cinnamon kinda storng
nooo man, a that time it taste sweet. :D

[dyllon]

nooo man, a that time it taste sweet. :D

I fond that quite hard 2 believe, but i'll try it just he same, i'm sorta a food finatic............. :hungry: :eusa_droo :hungry:

[Drew]

good to know that i'm not the only one that has tried it and liked it.

[chany86]

Drew, it sounds like a nice idea... i think i'll try it

[nuhsenutten]

ive never tried it but it never hurts to try... :)

[Manu]

ive never tried it but it never hurts to try... :)

As long as you have your pepto bismol!