Pastelon de Platano Maduro (Dominican-Style Yellow Plantain Pie)

This is a typical dish from the Dominican Republic. It can be used as the main dish, with a salad on the side. You can also have it as a side. It’s a healthy and delicious meal. It’s an easy to make recipe. Enjoy it!

Step: 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray a baking dish with cooking spray.

Step: 2

Place plantains and salt into a large pot and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until plantains turn a darker yellow; add 1 cup water to the pot, bring to a boil, and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain.

Step: 3

Mash plantains, milk, and butter together in the pot until smooth.

Step: 4

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir ground beef, onion, bell pepper, tomato sauce, garlic, and chicken bouillon, adding water if mixture gets too dry, in hot oil until beef is browned and cooked through, 10 to 12 minutes.

Step: 5

Spread 1/2 of the mashed plantains into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Pour meat mixture over the plantains and top with Cheddar cheese. Spread remaining mashed plantains over the cheese.

Step: 6

Bake in the preheated oven until plantains are golden and filling is bubbling, about 10 minutes.

Per Serving: 783 calories; protein 26.8g; carbohydrates 100.6g; fat 35.1g; cholesterol 107.1mg; sodium 739.2mg.

Depriving yourself can lead to lot of eat , late-night snacking, and mindless eats and it’s for this mind that Riner encourages people to indulge in “fun” foods every once in a while.

Avoidance on late-night snacking and got eat , it is much necessary to include some fun foods (or what one may perceive as unnecessary ). It means , if we can be order the healthiest thing on the menu but come home and graze on chips, perhaps we really will the junk food and should have just enjoyed it in the first place."

Because it comes to dinner , much eat or eating too much of the wrong item of food can lead to trouble on sleeping. On the other side, a daylight food that is less than satiating not make leave you want more and resulting in reaching for an eat bad food late-night side dish even closer to sleep .