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Empanadas de Plátano

El Salvador

The sweet empanadas: empanadas de plátano — ripe plantain dough filled with milk custard (leche poleada) or beans, fried and rolled in sugar — El Salvador's afternoon treat. Ingredients: ripe plantains, milk, cornstarch, cinnamon, vanilla, sugar; or refried bean filling.

What it is

The sweet empanadas: empanadas de plátano — ripe plantain dough filled with milk custard (leche poleada) or beans, fried and rolled in sugar — El Salvador's afternoon treat. Ingredients: ripe plantains, milk, cornstarch, cinnamon, vanilla, sugar; or refried bean filling. Recipe: 1) Boil and mash plantains into dough. 2) Make the custard; cool. 3) Fill discs; seal. 4) Fry; roll in sugar and cinnamon. Serve: with coffee or atol de elote (corn atole) at meriendas. Flavor: caramel plantain, creamy centre. History: the plantain empanada is Pipil-country sweetness — atoles and empanadas are the Salvadoran snack canon. See also: Pupusas, Yuca Frita con Chicharrón.

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