5 Different Ways Of Having Plantains In Your Daily Routine

What is that one thing in your vegan diet that you can savor at any time of the day? Which is low-calorie healthy snack is a part of your regular plant-based meal pattern? Green plantains could be that option that you can include in your salads, breakfast cereal, get them fried to have with delectable dips or anything.

Undoubtedly, plantains are a delightful choice of ingredient for vegan people. Full of starch, less sweet, high in potassium, and low in carbohydrates. The best part is savoring green plantains in different ways after boiling, deep-frying, grilling, and over-roasting.

Here, we have five ways of adding plantains to your vegan diet pattern at any point in time.

5 Different Ways Of Having Plantains In Your Daily Routine

 

1. Consume the hard-pressed crunchy tostones

 

There is nothing like feeling the crunch of best-prepared chips and teaming up with your favored choice of sauce. Lay hands on readymade and cholesterol-free plantain tostones Canada from the brand Ojas Vegan and experience the crispness by yourself. Best prepared plantain chips can never get outdated and you get bored of them. You can try different flavors of healthy and nutritional-rich hard-pressed chips to your mid-afternoon or midnight snack with ease. Also, club the crushed tostones in your green salad, flavorsome burritos, or any other meals to feel the crunch inside.

 

2. Make Creamy Atol de elote with Plantain Inside

 

What if tell you to drink plantain? Strange isn’t it? Well, a recipe called Atol de elote is available for vegan people to mix plantain inside a healthy drink. In Guatemala, a special drink is served that contains milk, sugar, cinnamon, and frozen corn. But suggest you make a little twist to this recipe by taking almond or soy milk mixed with green plantains, coconut sugar, and cinnamon. You can have this meal like a smoothie bowl during breakfast or fulfill your midnight sweet craving with the same.

 

3. Plant-Based Plantain Mofongo

 

A famous Puerto Rico dish called plantain Mofongo is another addition to your list of vegan snacks. Originally, the dish contains unripe green plantains, garlic, and pork cracklings. But suggest you recipe the pork with crushed vegan tostones. It is a healthy side dish that you can prepare easily by frying the slices of plantains and mixing them with mashed garlic and crushed tostones. Form a ball-like shape of the mixture and team up with your choice of plant-based dip.

 

4. Bolon-Green Plantains Dumplings

 

Get ready to bring a new plant-based twist to the Ecuadorian breakfast dish called Bolon de verde. It is an authentic breakfast meal for people to enjoy the crispness of shallow fried dumplings and team up with a cup of coffee. The dish contains cooked and mashed green plantains, green onion, coriander, crushed peanuts, and tostones chips. All the ingredients are mixed and formed into ball shapes and then fried to make them crunchy. An additional option is adding vegan cheese during the preparation of the mixture to make it more delectable.

 

5. Pastelon of Plantains

 

Another plant-based Puerto Rico dish to try is Pastelon. It is lasagna with having thin layers of green plantains, vegan cheese, and veggies inside. It is a perfect casserole meal to make at home for a small family gathering. It is simple to bake a meal for the day that includes ingredients like plantains, tomato, bell peppers, green onions, spices, and vegan cheese. Fry the long elongated thin layers of green plantains on one side and cook all the veggies on another side. Now, place the fried plantains on a baking tray and add the vegetable mixture.

 

Concluding Thoughts 

 

Plantains are versatile for vegans to prepare distinctive yet delectable meals out of the same. Try the mentioned ways of treating your palate with the lip-smacking taste of the green plantains recipe. As an additional component, grab the crunchy quinoa puffs from the Ojas Vegan brand and bring more crispness to your meals.