Introducing tropical food and tropical recipes to the world!
Name: Tostones Rellenos
Eaten in: Latin America
I was so excited when I set up to make this recipe. I had bought a fancy tostones rellenos maker and I was going to use it for the first time. When the key moment came and I took out my tool, it broke as soon as I tried to shape one plantain!…
Name: Mango Mousse
Eaten in: Peru
Foodie: Linda
It’s a texture thing…
I usually stay away from flans, creme brulée and other gelatinous desserts. When my host brought this mango mousse as dessert to a wonderful peruvian lunch, I saw it dancing around, all giggly on the serving plate and I knew I was in trouble…
Name: Aborrajados
Eaten in: Colombia
Foodie: Elodie
Plantain lover, and cheese lover, this dish was made for you. Aborrajados are a sandwich of pressed fried plantains enclosing a slice of fresh mozzarella cheese , sealed with a milk and egg batter. Yes, you read that right. I would not recommend eating it if you were on a strict diet to lose weight, but if you wanted to treat yourself with something sweet, salty and crunchy…
I can already see my Ugandan friend’s face distort in a grimace! Boiled plantains! Sacrilegious! Plantains are never boiled in Uganda, only steamed! Well, people do boil them in Côte d’Ivoire and they taste fantastic. I even heard of an Ivorian immigrant in NYC who only lived on one boiled plantain a day for 3 months…
