If you honey Bananas Foster—the iconic dessert where bananas tossed in a caramelly, boozy sauce are flambéed and served with vanilla ice cream— this is for you. Paola Velez shares her recipe for Platanos Foster, which gives the classic a Caribbean area twist by using plantains instead of bananas and adding some warm spices and kokosnoot h2o to the caramel sauce. She also likes to pair the cooked plantains with rum raisin water ice foam, whose rum flavor matches the rum in the caramel sauce beautifully. Start to cease, the impressive dish takes only 20 minutes to brand, so you tin can fifty-fifty pull it off on a weeknight if you'd like.

Read on for the Platanos Foster recipe and follow the steps beneath

Prep and melt the Plantains

Platanos Foster recipe
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You'll demand two actress ripe plantains for this recipe. Peel each 1, cut them in half crosswise, and and so carefully cutting each slice in half lengthwise. Then, catch a large bandage-atomic number 26 skillet and melt the coconut oil and butter in the pan over medium. Add the plantains in apartment-side downward, and let 'em melt until they're calorie-free golden brown, near ii minutes on each side.

Adjacent, add some coconut water to the skillet, stir the plantains, and and so cover the skillet with a lid.  Plough the rut down to low and allow the plantains cook for a few minutes until they're soft, turning them once. Then, transfer them to a plate so yous can get started on the caramel sauce.

Build the sauce

Turn up the heat under the skillet to medium and add the low-cal dark-brown saccharide, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground clove, kosher salt, and a lilliputian more than coconut water. Stir the mixture until the dark-brown carbohydrate has melted, and and then add together the plantains dorsum into the skillet, letting them cook for another minute on each side.

Lite it up

It's time to flambé! Accept the skillet off the estrus and add together the rum and crème de banana. Carefully—carefully!—use a long matchstick to ignite the liquor, and have your skillet lid on hand in case the flames get out of control and yous need to smother them. Paola also notes that if your microwave is over your stove, you should make sure to not flambé direct nether the grease trap.

Later the flames have burned out, y'all can render the skillet to medium heat and add the residuum of the coconut water. Stir until a caramel sauce forms, and let the plantains cook in the sauce for simply a few minutes more than until they're evenly coated.

Serve

At this signal, you're ready to swallow. Grab some bowls and divide the plantains and sauce among them. Then, top each bowl with two scoops of rum raisin ice cream. Drizzle some more than caramel sauce from the pan on top of the Platanos Foster if you'd similar, and then grab a spoon and savour every caramelly bite.

"Wow," she says. "That is amazing. It just feels like a warm hug. I don't know, I always say that. But really, sometimes, nosotros just need a warm hug in the form of Plantains Foster."

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