{"id":18212,"date":"2021-11-30T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiakitchen.com\/?p=18212"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:25:02","slug":"how-to-make-venezuelan-tajadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiakitchen.com\/es\/how-to-make-venezuelan-tajadas\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f3mo hacer Tajadas de Pl\u00e1tano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tajadas are Venezuela\u2019s ode to ripe plantains. They are also beautifully simple to make. Which is why we are calling this how-to from one of our favorite Venezuelan cooks Liliana Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> an Abuela 101 (even though she is not an abuela!).

Abuela 101s<\/a> are how we pass on essential Latino cooking wisdom here at Familia Kitchen. They are cocina consejos your abuela would offer if you were in the kitchen together. It\u2019s the stuff you gotta know to cook your way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tajadas are a great first dish for young cooks, making this an Abuela 101 at its most esencial. Frying tajadas involves exactly two ingredients: ripe (yellow) plantains and vegetable oil. Don\u2019t use green plantains\u2014they won\u2019t turn out sweet and soft. Use those unripe plantains to make tostones<\/a> or Colombian patacones<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Venezuela, tajadas are an everyday side that goes with pretty much everything on the table: beef, chicken, pork, fish, beans. As Liliana explains, \u201dIn Venezuela, we are like monkeys\u2014because we love our pl\u00e1tanos and have them daily. We cannot live without them. And it is not only my family. It\u2019s everyone. We eat tajadas with everything. We make a pasta with bolognese sauce\u2014and eat them with tajadas. If you find yourself hungry in the middle of the afternoon, you grab a tajada and put a little melted cheese on top. There are millions of ways we eat tajadas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tajadas are also a must-have player in the country’s beloved national dish: pabell\u00f3n criollo. For the starving only, this heaping traditional dish includes shredded flank steak and a sky-high serving of Venezuelan-style white rice<\/a>, black beans, and tajadas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you seek a step-by-step of how to make pabell\u00f3n criollo or want to see how Liliana preps plantains into tajadas, check out her YouTube channel Mi Show de Cocina’s episode on pabell\u00f3n criollo<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more of Liliana\u2019s family-famous Venezuelan recipes, try her life-changing bienmesabe cake<\/strong><\/a>, handmade arepas<\/strong><\/a>, reina pepiada<\/strong><\/a> or carne mechada<\/strong><\/a> arepa fillings, and special occasion-ready asado negro<\/a><\/strong>\u2014a brown sugar-blackened caramelized eye of round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to Make Fried-Plantain Tajadas<\/h2>\n\n
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    <\/span>Servings<\/span>

    3 to 4<\/p>servings<\/span><\/div>

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    10<\/p>minutes<\/span><\/div>

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      2<\/span> ripe plantains, peeled and sliced<\/span><\/p><\/li>

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      • Pour the vegetable oil into a large frying pan set to medium high. The oil should be deep enough that it will be at least an inch taller than the plantain pieces when you fry them. Heat the oil to 350\u00b0.<\/li>
      • Slice a shallow cut lengthwise across the peel. Slide off the skin.
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        • Slice the ripe plantains into chunks no less than 1\/2-inch thick each, on the diagonal\u2014so it has more edges to connect with the hot oil when fried.
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          • Working in batches and being careful not to crowd, use tongs to put the plantains in the oil. Fry the first side for about 2 minutes until it turns golden brown. Turn each plantain over to brown the second side, about 1 minute.<\/li>
          • When both sides are medium golden, remove and put the fried plantains on a paper towel-lined plate.<\/li>
          • Serve hot or at least warm. No salt, no spices, no dipping sauce needed. Your tajadas will be melty-caramelized inside, crunchy-golden outside: so sweet, so delicioso.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t
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            • Be sure your plantains are ripe\u2014that means mostly yellow with some black spots. Not mostly black with some yellow spots\u2014that is too ripe and they will fall apart in the hot oil. Not green or barely yellow, that is too unripe: they will not sweeten nor caramelize.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n \n\t\n\t\t\t