Jamaican Plantain Fritters

This is a Jamaican cuisine, very popular in Africa.
These fritters are made of over ripe plantains. Make sure the peel of the plantains have turned black and are not green.
Most people throw away their plantains when they turn black and soft like I used to, until I came across this recipe. This is the best time to make fritters out of those.

Ingredients:

• Ripe Plantains - 2
• Onion - 1 small
• All Purpose Flour - 1/2 - 3/4 cup
• Green Chillies - 2
• Oil - for shallow frying

Directions:

• Peel the skin of the plantains, and discard them, and put the plantains in a mixing bowl.
• Finely chop onions and green chillies and put them in the mixing bowl along with plantains.
• Add flour to it and mash it up with a potato masher, mix well. You can adjust the quantity of the flour as needed to make a thick batter.
• Salt is not really needed, but u can add a pinch if you wish to.
• Let the batter rest for 15-20 minutes.
• Heat oil in a wide pan for shallow frying.
• Drop a tbsp of batter in the hot oil. You can make 4-5 fritters at a time depending upon how big your pan is.
• Let them fry for 2 minutes till they turn brown, then toss them all to the other side and let them fry for another 2 minutes.
• Remove on a kitchen towel to drain excess oil.
• Serve them hot with ketchup.

Variation :

• You can add beaten egg to the batter.
• You can serve with green chutney to give it an Indian touch.
• Ripe plantains would be sweet by themselves, but if you like it sweeter, you can add a tsp of sugar the batter. If you add sugar, the fritters would be darker in color.

Enjoy your sweet and hot fritters !!