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Puerto Rican Beef Plantain Omelette

From: dmcmenam@mtholyoke.edu (Dianna McMenamin)

Date: 2 Nov 1993 14:44:29 GMT

Carl Harris (ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:

Plantains are good sliced and sauteed. They're also good substituted into
any recipe that uses cooked bananas. Many caribbean recipes that call for
banana originally called for plantain, but the recipe-writer thought you
wouldn't have access to plantain.

Here is a recipe from "The Total Banana" by Alex Abella (Harcourt,
Brace, Johanovich, 1979). The book has lots of other plantain recipes, too.

The recipe is a little heavy in the fat department, so I usually leave out
the meat, and skimp on the oil and butter. (I don't know how authentic the
veggie version is!) Also, the author wants us to boil the beans to death.
I have taken the liberty of changing that in the body of the recipe.


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