Amarillos en Almibar — Print Recipe

Ripe plantains baked in a cinnamon and clove syrup with butter, creating a sweet, sticky dessert with warm Caribbean spices.

Ingredients

1 Preheat oven to 375F. Arrange plantain halves in a single layer in a buttered baking dish.
2 Combine brown sugar, water, cinnamon sticks, cloves, butter, vanilla, and salt in a saucepan.
3 Heat over medium, stirring until sugar dissolves and syrup comes to a gentle boil.
4 Pour hot syrup over the plantains in the baking dish.
5 Bake thirty minutes, basting plantains with syrup every ten minutes, until soft and deeply caramelized.
6 Serve warm with the reduced syrup spooned over the top.

Did You Know?

This dessert is so simple and beloved that many Puerto Rican grandmothers can make it with their eyes closed, adjusting the syrup by smell alone.