Two-Tone Tostones

4 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 large ripe plantains (yellow-spotted or full-black ripeness)
  • 2 medium yams (bright golden yams are best) or 2 medium sweet potatoes (bright golden yams are best)
  • sea salt
  • 2 -6 tablespoons olive oil or 2 -6 tablespoons cooking spray

Directions

  1. 1
    Wash the sweet potatoes. Pierce the peel in 6-8 places, place both in microwave and nuke for 4-6 minutes, until partially cooked.
  2. 2
    While sweet potatoes are cooking, peel plantains and slice into medium rounds.
  3. 3
    Slice sweet potatoes into chunks. My preferred method it to quarter them and then chunk the quarters like a banana. Nice triangular pieces are good for presentation.
  4. 4
    Heat olive oil in a large skillet or nonstick frying pan.
  5. 5
    On medium to medium-high heat, fry sweet potato and plantain slices together, stirring and flipping to prevent sticking or burning.
  6. 6
    Grate sea salt over slices during frying process.
  7. 7
    Drain and shake onto serving plate. Best hot! Reheat well in oven or toaster oven after refrigeration, poorly in microwave.

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