Sweet Plantains in Red Wine

By Dustin

Ingredients

• 6 yellow plantains, ripe but not mushy. (They should be yellow all over with very little or no black spots. If you can't find them, buy green plantains and let them ripen inside a brown bag on your countertop for a few days until they turn yellow.)
• water
• kosher salt
• olive oil
• 3 cups of sugar
• 3 cups of water
• 1 cup red wine (use a wine that you like to drink)

Details

Servings 12
Adapted from interfaithfamily.com

Preparation

Step 1

Peel plantains and soak in salted water for about 30 minutes. Heat up the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the drained plantains and sauté until browned lightly. Pour the sugar over the plantains and add the water to the pan. Stir carefully and bring to a boil. Cover the pan, lower the heat to medium, and cook for 20 minutes. Uncover the pan and add the wine. Cook uncovered until a thick syrup forms. Serve on a deep platter so that guests can spoon extra syrup over their plantains.

You can make this dish ahead of time, but you should remove the pan from the heat one minute after adding the wine. Transfer the plantains with syrup to a deep baking dish. The syrup will thicken as it cools. Reheat for 20 minutes in a 300-degree oven, turning the plantains once, and serve.