Frittata with Plantain

Tortilla con Plátano Macho

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zarela's Veracruz: Mexico's Simplest Cuisine

By Zarela Martínez

Published 2001

  • About

People in Mexico automatically know when tortilla means a thin corn or flour tortilla and when it means a frittata-like omelet (as it always does in Spain). I make this one with a rich-flavored ripe plantain (yellow heavily overlaid with black). A green plantain would not be as sweet and mellow. The acidity of the cultured cream is a pleasing contrast.

I was given this recipe by Ana María Capitaine Collinot, the chef-owner (with her husband, Carlos Rubio Novales) of Los Brujo