Chorizo & Queso Tostones – Crispy fried plantains are topped with mayoketchup, crumbled chorizo, and queso fresco to make for an incredible appetizer or tailgate food

Alright guys, we’re in Week 3 of Hispanic Heritage month and I’ve got a fun snack recipe to share with you guys. But first, have you been keeping up with the recipes so far?

Week 1 – Mexico – Mexican Street Corn Chicken Salad

Week 2 – Peru – Electric Orange Pisco Sour

Week 3- Puerto Rico- Tropical Red Bull Margaritas

Which has been your favorite? Have you tried any at home? Make sure to tag me in your social media posts so I can see what creations you’ve made!

As I’ve mentioned in the previous posts, to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Kroger is highlighting remixed dishes from a particular Hispanic country each week. As you noticed above, we’ve covered dishes from Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico so far.

And today, we’re continuing our celebration of Puerto Rico. Living in Florida for much of my life, I have enjoyed many traditional dishes from Puerto Rico. I’ll never forget the now-defunct Puerto Rican spot across from my college campus that made the best chicharrón de pollo. RIP, Fritanga – I’ll never forget you.

But today, I wanted to share with you my favorite Puerto Rican dish of all time: tostones.

I didn’t fall in love with tostones until later in life. I was a fan of the more-crispy plantain chips but I hadn’t yet had tostones that could match them…until I visited an authentic Puerto Rican restaurant that had the crispiest, most flavorful tostones ever. Now, I can’t get enough of them!

Today’s recipe is a remixed version is the perfect snack for any party or tailgate this season. I added a little Mexican flair to the tostones, with the help from Cacique Chorizo and Queso Fresco.

Check out these Chorizo & Queso Tostones!

Tostones are suuuuper simple to make at home. You don’t need a lot of ingredients – just oil, salt, and green plantains. But to ensure these tostones come out super crispy you need to follow these two rules:

1. Use the greenest plantains you can find – no yellow ones!
2. Make sure the frying oil is the right temperature

To keep the oil at the right temp, I use a cast-iron skillet, which helps insulate heat, and I use a candy thermometer to watch the oil temp. If you have a deep fryer with a thermometer, that works great too.

To make tostones, all you do is peel the plantains and cut them into large chunks. Then you fry them until cooked, smash them into patties, and then fry again until crispy.

As you can see below, I like using a flat-bottomed glass to help smash my tostones. 

In Puerto Rico, they looooove a condiment called mayoketchup. It’s a combination of…you guessed it…mayo and ketchup. So it only seemed right to serve these tostones with it.

I topped each crispy tostone with mayoketchup, made with my favorite, Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise, a little cooked Mexican chorizo, and queso fresco. I loooove the texture and taste of queso fresco. It’s super crumbly but still moist – kind of like mozzarella.

You can find queso fresco and all the other Mexican cheeses from Cacique in the dairy aisle at Kroger.

To help you make this recipe exactly right the first time, here are a couple more tips:

1. If you’re having a tough time smashing the plantains into disks after the first fry session, it’s because you didn’t cook the plantains all the way. Cook them until a fork pierces the skin pretty easily.
2. When you buy Mexican chorizo, it comes raw. So you have to cook it in a skillet to cook it through and make it crumbly like you see in the photos. But it takes a little longer than, say, breakfast sausage. I cooked mine for almost 20 minutes to remove most of the moisture so don’t be surprised if yours takes this long too.
3. Don’t crowd the pan when frying, or else the frying temp will drop.

And that’s it! You’re going to want to serve this treat at tailgates or as an appetizer for a holiday party – the opportunities are endless!

For more ideas on how to remix your Hispanic recipes this month, check out Kroger’s hub for Hispanic Heritage Month, Sazon Remix. You can also find coupons for many of the Hispanic ingredients you need!

This concludes all the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations here at CPA, but don’t worry – next week, we’re rolling straight into fall recipes! Get excited!!

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