Educating ones self is a continuous process. Today's recipe is a modification of the recipe in the first Plantain Chronicles. The difference is using panko crumbs to coat the plantain balls.
Panko crumbs is something I always felt was posh and never found in my local grocer here in Doha. Today I decided it was high time I made mine.
Panko Crumbs
Ingredients:
4 slices of day old white bread, crust removed and cut into small squares
Method:
Preheat the oven to 200 oC. Blend the crumbs in a blender using the pulse function until all the bread has been shredded. Avoid making fine crumbs.
Place the crumbs in a flat oven tray and toast for about 4 minutes. Shake the tray after 2 minutes to make sure all sides of the crumbs are toasted.
Ingredients:
1 very ripe Plantains
1 tbs crushed chill
1 Knorr Cube
3 tbs of plain flour
3 tbs of fine breadcrumbs
1 cup of flour, for coating
2 eggs, beaten, for coating
1 cup of Panko crumbs, for coating
½ cup of grated Parmesan
1 cup of flour, for coating
2 eggs, beaten, for coating
1 cup of Panko crumbs, for coating
½ cup of grated Parmesan
stuffing of your choice e.g. boiled egg, cheese, prawns
Method:
Mash the plantain until there are no lumps and mix in the chill and knorr. Add the flour and breadcrumbs and combine thoroughly. What you want in a thick dough that would hold so you may need to add more flour. Using the boiled egg as the stuffing, fold the plantain dough around the egg, cover the whole egg. For other types of stuffing mentioned, flatten a table spoon of plantain dough in your palm, place stuffing prawn in the centre and fold into a ball.
Place one stuffed plantain ball in a bowl of flour and coat it thoroughly with flour, dust off the excess. Return the flour coated ball in to the a bowl containing beaten eggs and then lastly coat with the panko crumbs combined with the Parmesan.
Method:
Mash the plantain until there are no lumps and mix in the chill and knorr. Add the flour and breadcrumbs and combine thoroughly. What you want in a thick dough that would hold so you may need to add more flour. Using the boiled egg as the stuffing, fold the plantain dough around the egg, cover the whole egg. For other types of stuffing mentioned, flatten a table spoon of plantain dough in your palm, place stuffing prawn in the centre and fold into a ball.
Place one stuffed plantain ball in a bowl of flour and coat it thoroughly with flour, dust off the excess. Return the flour coated ball in to the a bowl containing beaten eggs and then lastly coat with the panko crumbs combined with the Parmesan.
Repeat this for the rest of the stuffed balls. Deep fry them until they are golden brown and crunchy. Enjoy with sauce of your choice.
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