Platanos en Tentacion - Temptation Plantains

I had some plantains that were ripening but were taking forever to get to the good stage of over ripe/almost rotten to fry them as platanitos maduros, so I decided to bake a couple of them as Platanos en Tentacion - for those of you not familiar with the term, it translates to Temptation Plantains.

 

My mother used to make this in Cuba but she used brown sugar, butter and 'drinking' sherry (as opposed to cooking sherry)

 

I didn't have sherry but I did have apple juice, so decided to go with that.... The syrup not eaten was saved and we ate it over French Toast the next morning (after reheating)...it was delicious!

 

Platanos en Tentacion

 

Ripe plantains

Brown sugar

Sherry, white wine or apple juice

Cinnamon (optional)

 

Peel plantains and cut in half lengthwise, placing them in a large baking dish or pan.  My glass baking dish has a built-in non-stick finish so I didn't need to butter the dish first, but you might want to if yours doesn't have a non-stick coating already

 

Depending on whether you want to have some syrup left or not, either pour or drizzle the liquid over the plantain, sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon and dot with butter.

 

Bake in 350 F oven until done how you want them.  If you over bake, the syrup will harden and become caramel.

 

I used my Cuisinart toaster-oven on the convectional setting for about 30 minutes or so.  They were delicious!

Comments

[Sonia]

Nothing like it, is it, kojak? Thank you for visiting and leaving a comment!

[kojak]

I grow up eating platano en tentacion in Panama, the plantains where so ripe and so sweet, bring back good memory!!

[Sonia]

Hi, j r., With your husband having been born in Jamaica and you living in So. Florida, I can imagine you do eat plantains fairly often....There are so many ways to prepare them and I love all of them. My Cuban grandmother's Green Plantain Soup was delicious!

[FrugalMom]

They look fantastic! We eat a lot of plantains around here, mostly just ripe and boiled. My husband will eat the unripe ones boiled as well, and sometimes we fry the ripe ones. I have not tried these baked in sherry ones since my first visit to England (somewhere around 1992 I think).

[Sonia]

Hi, Carol....thank you! My cookbook is still available through Amazon....they only order copies from me when they receive orders for them. You can also get it through Amazon new and used (they are brand new) or through me.

[Carol]

Sonia,
Thank you for stopping by and leaving a nice comment. When your cookbook is back in stock I will order it from Amazon.

Your blog is beautiful.

Carol