The best alloco recipe!
The Alloco is simply fries of ripe plantains cut into small squares. Plantains can be a little seasoned with salt before frying, and sometimes it can be fried with palm oil or refined oil
Ingredients
- 6 Plantains walls
- frying oil
- a little salt
- ¼ onion
Instructions
- Peel and cut your plantains into a singel or small square
- Sprinkle your plantain with salt and mix slightly
- Heat oil over medium heat
- Add half an onion to flavor the oil, then add the plantains. At the moment if the plantain changes directly color, it is that the oil is too hot to remove the stove for a few moment from the fire 1 minute will be enough for the temperature to drop a little. Otherwise (if there is no small bubble) increase the fire
- Fry 8 to 10 minutes until plantains are really brown. It should be noted that the more ripe the plantains, the more dark they will be at the end of the frying. It takes time to make it dry completely
- Remove the plantain with a ladle has hole and go directly to a colander or on absorbent paper to remove excess oil
- Serve either alone or with meat or with Attiéké Poisson! Bon appetit
Notes
Do not forget to remove the onions when they start to blacken. They should not be charred in the oil