{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-25T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-02-25T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T14:47:23","slug":"fried-plantains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Fried Plantains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plant.jpg\" title=\"plant.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plant.jpg\" alt=\"plant.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago, a friend with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plantain\">plantain <\/a>tree gave us a bunch of lovely ripe ones. I had only eaten plantains in a restaurant and never attempted cooking them at home before. Turns out they are really easy to prepare.  I used one of my most trusted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madhur-Jaffreys-World-Vegetarian-Meatless\/dp\/0517596326\/theguilofscie-20\/\">cook books <\/a>for the recipe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cutpl.jpg\" title=\"cutpl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cutpl.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"cutpl.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heat <strong>2 tablespoons of olive oil<\/strong> in  a skillet while <strong>splitting each plantain into quarters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the oil gets hot, lay the plantains down in a <strong>single layer<\/strong> and let them sizzle. When they start to brown on the bottom, turn them over and let them finish cooking. When they are nice and <strong>brown on both sides<\/strong>, they\u2019re done. Remove from the pan with a slotted spatula, drain on paper towels and put in a serving dish. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper<strong> <\/strong>and <strong>serve hot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A variation is to <strong>mash up some garlic cloves<\/strong> and add that to the oil when you fry the plantains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plan.jpg\" title=\"plan.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, a friend with a plantain tree gave us a bunch of lovely ripe ones. I had only eaten plantains in a restaurant and never attempted cooking them at home before. Turns out they are really easy to prepare. I used one of my most trusted cook books for the recipe.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[39,37,13,38,36,40],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snacks","tag-cuban","tag-fried","tag-garlic","tag-olive-oil","tag-plantains","tag-tropical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}