Tajadas de Plátanos

Fried Sweet Plantain Strips with Cheese and Sugar

Preparation info
  • 16-20 strips

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Secrets of Colombian Cooking

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2004

  • About

If I may quote the Colombian writer, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, in his sensational story about my hometown, Volver a Barranquilla:

En la casa de la familia más rica y antigua de la cuidad, se come todo los días tajadas de plátano con arroz como en el ultimo tugurio de Carrizal.

He clearly explains that every day in Barranquilla, both the oldest, richest families and those in the farthest, poorest huts eat Tajadas de Plátano and rice; we all have a very clos