Platano Macho

The plantain belongs to the same species as the common banana is green or cooking bananas grown

 

 like a vegetable in parts of the rainforest , its species is Musa paradisiaca and belongs to the family of Musáceos , its origin is Asian and is cultivated in all tropical and subtropical regions of America.

Features: Banana male is rather larger than the common banana, platanomacho narrows on the inferred end , color is green to reach their optimum ripeness turns yellow with brown stripes and spots and the taste is very crude cook bitter and becomes soft , smooth and buttery .

 

Its consumption is cooked because raw plantain is indigestible , is handled as a vegetable , cooked with skin , roasted sliced ​​horizontally unpeeled and accommodating the skin side of the fire, boiled, baked served like skin roasted potatoes to accompany meat dishes or fried sliced ​​popular " fried plantains or tostones ."

 

Plantain leaves are used to wrap various meats such as fish or chicken, give a delicate citrus flavor and form around the meat in a gelatinous , viscous liquid . This custom ancestrally used to protect the food from direct use of fire , banana leaves are left to wither on a barbecue or griddle until it turns dark green, then cut the midrib and are ready to wrap the different foods.

 

Properties Platano Macho :

 

His greatest contribution is starch , so should be cooked before eating .