Spiced Orange Plantain Dessert
Spiced Orange Plantain Dessert is a gluten free Caribbean inspired dessert. Just barely sweet, it is a high fiber healthy dessert!
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 star anise
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoons softened butter
- 3 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
- 3 sweet plantains peeled and sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a buttered baking dish, place cinnamon stick and star anise.
- In a large bowl, combine orange juice, butter and sugar. Whisk to combine.
- Add plantains and toss well.
- Transfer to baking dish.
- Transfer to oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Transfer to broiler and broil on high for 5-10 minutes, depending how golden you want the plantains.
Notes
You want to pick plantains that are ripe, but not too mushy. The skin should be about 50% black.
If you would like stronger spice flavor, you can use ground spices instead of the whole spices I used.
If you would like stronger spice flavor, you can use ground spices instead of the whole spices I used.
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