Oven baked plantain slices
This easy recipe with help you upgrade your plantain experience
Equipment
- Mandolin
- bowl
- Round baking dish
- Silicon brush
Ingredients
- 8 Large green plantains try to get them around the same size. number of plantains depend on the size of your baking dish. Mine is 12 inches.
- salt
- 1½ cup melted butter unsalted
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- 3 cloves Garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon Paprika
- 1 sprig Rosemary
- 1 teaspoon Black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 400 degrees
- Follow the slicing instructions above
- Combine all ingredients into a bowl. You'll need to use the mixture twice: Majority of it before baking and also for broiling.
- Add layers of sliced plantains at the bottom of the dish to give it a little height if the dish is too deep and the rings of plantains will be too low.
- Dip your silicon brush into your mixture and brush generously. Brush in between the slices.
- Add plantain slices batches above the layer or layers of plantain
- Place the batches in a circular pattern around the parameter of your dish.
- Continue to fill the center with the slices. Be creative with your pattern. I left an area with just some layers of plantain slices, so that I could add a bowl of codfish for presentation purposes.
- When the baking dish is completely full, use the silicon brush, and apply the mixture generously, getting into the to every slice and in between slices.
- Cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes.
- Uncover dish, use the remainder of the butter mixture and brush again. Broil for another 10 minutes or until top is golden brown.
- Add it as a side to any menu, or allow it to be the star of your dish.
- Saute the rosemary lightly and add as garnish. You can also add your garnish fresh.