{"id":963,"date":"2011-05-15T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=963"},"modified":"2011-05-15T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:56:54","slug":"baked-yellow-plantains-maduros-asados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Baked Yellow Plantains ( Maduros Asados )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never tried plantains before . To me , plantains are huge banana , king banana , it reminds me back in Indonesia that we have what we call Pisang Agung , it&#8217;s huge , long and skinny . Of course back in Indonesia we have few varieties of bananas , unlike in US , what they call banana is just banana , almost looks like &#8221; pisang ambon &#8221; back Indonesia . Over there we have pisang raja , pisang ambon , pisang susu , and many many more .<\/p>\n<p>This picture below is what we call Plantain , they&#8217;re big , more than normal size of bananas , and the more black spots they get , the better , and the riper they are . This below , is a picture of ripe plantain .I bought them about 2 or more weeks ago , it was still green when i bought it , that&#8217;s how long it took to get really ripe .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/yellow-plantains.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-964\" title=\"yellow plantains\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/yellow-plantains-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is so easy to enjoy these plantains , i just line a parchment paper on the baking sheet and slice the bananas , brush with melted butter and i baked them for 20 minutes on each side , at 400 F . Because they&#8217;re sweet , they caramelize pretty good without having to add anything such as brown sugar , i guess you could if you want to , but i didn&#8217;t . And the result was delicious !! I guess the real maduros was supposed to be fried plantains , and i love fried food , everything tastes better fried i think , but in order to try to have a healthier snack , i think baking them is a better choice and beside it tastes pretty good anyway .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/baked-yellow-plantains.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-965\" title=\"baked yellow plantains\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/baked-yellow-plantains-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never tried plantains before . To me , plantains are huge banana , king banana , it reminds me back in Indonesia that we have what we call Pisang Agung , it&#8217;s huge , long and skinny . Of course back in Indonesia we have few varieties of bananas , unlike in US , what they call banana is just banana , almost looks like &#8221; pisang ambon &#8221; back Indonesia . Over there we have pisang raja , pisang ambon , pisang susu , and many many more . This picture below is what we call Plantain , they&#8217;re big , more than normal size of bananas , and the more black spots they get , the better , and the riper they are . This below , is a picture of ripe plantain .I bought them about 2 or more weeks ago , it was still green when i bought it , that&#8217;s how long it took to get really ripe . It is so easy to enjoy these plantains , i just line a parchment paper on the baking sheet and slice the bananas , brush with melted butter and i baked them for 20 minutes on each side , at 400 F . Because they&#8217;re sweet , they caramelize pretty good without having to add anything such as brown sugar , i guess you could if you want to , but i didn&#8217;t . And the result was delicious !! I guess the real maduros was supposed to be fried plantains , and i love fried food , everything tastes better fried i think , but in order to try to have a healthier snack , i think baking them is a better choice and beside it tastes pretty good anyway . &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-side-dishes","category-side-dishes-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}