Jamaican Plantain Fritters

original blog post: https://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2020/10/jamaican-plantain-fritters.html

Ingredients

1-2 large over ripe plantain

2 ½ cup flour

¼ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon cinnamon powder

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 ½ teaspoon vanilla

3 to 4 tablespoons brown sugar

apx 2/3 cup water cup water

enough oil to shallow fry

Instructions

• Peel the plantains and mash into a paste
• Dissolve sugar in water
• Mix flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and plantains in a bowl
• Add the sweet water a little at a time while mixing the batter, you may or may not use all the water
• Heat some oil in a frying pan
• Spoon the batter into hot oil in small circles
• Fry about 1 to 2 minutes per side until golden brown and crispy
• Drain on a paper towel and serve hot.

Greedy Tips:

• My brown sugar has very large coarse grains, so I dissolve it in the water and use that to sweeten, if your sugar is fine you don’t need to dissolve in water first. you can add it directly to the flour.
• I don’t measure the water; I add it in small amounts until I reach the desired consistency. Lumpy thick while still a little runny. like a thick cake batter.