How Do You Cook Plantains For Plantain Crusted Snapper With Mango Salsa?
“What we’re going to do now is fry our plantains for the crust. Just like a banana, peel the plantain just like so. Now what we’ll do, cut them in half and slice them about a quarter of an inch like so. Sometimes it’s easier when you slice it, slice it once and then flip it over. That way, it won’t roll on you, just like so. Now that our plantains are sliced about a quarter-inch think, like so, we are going to go over to the burners here, and we’re going to fry the plantains until they’re crisp, nice golden brown. Start with my corn oil and a little bit of fire. Now you want about a half-inch of oil in there. You pretty much are deep-frying these. So we’ll go with so much oil. Once you get the oil going, you want to heat it up almost to the smoke point, but be very careful. Once it’s smoking, turn it down, and don’t leave the stove while the oil is on. We don’t want any fires. This will take about two minutes to heat up. Once that’s done, we’ll add our plantains. We’ll cook them until
