One of my favorite dishes among others
ingredients
6 large plantains
2 cups dried beans
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup sugar
1 chocolate bar (Abuelita)
2 cinnamon sticks
6 cloves
12 cups water
powdered sugar
cream (optional)
Olive oil or vegetable oil
preparation:
Cook beans in 4 cups water, add sugar and a cinnamon stick, once they are cooked, remove the cinnamon and place the beans in a blender with the chocolate, once they are blend return them into the pot and cook until they become a thick paste, do not forget to move them with a spatula to prevent burning, remove from heat to cool.
Wash unpeeled plantain cut the ends. In a pot with 8 cups water, cook with cinnamon, vanilla and clove. When a knife can pass through a plantain with not much strength the plantain is already cooked, remove from heat, and water, remove the shells being careful not to burn and placed the plantains and the vanilla in the food processor without water, once they are well crushed put the plantain in another pot and cook in low heat and move it with a spatula to prevent sticking to the bottom and burn, must be firm as the dough to make tortillas, remove it from heat and set aside.
When the dough has cool off, take some plantain dough on the palm of your hand and make a thick tortilla cake the size of the palm of your hand, in the center put about a half tablespoon of the of beans and then turn the dough inwards until the bean is covered with plantain dough and the though looks like an oval shape
In a skillet with hot oil fry the oval plantain balls until they are golden in all sides. Serve with cream and / or powder sugar.
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