If you like fried plantains, you’ve got to try them thinly sliced and fried in Coconut oil with a little bit of sea salt. Fry them on medium-low heat until golden brown on each side to give them a bit of a crisp on the outside.
If you go to the store to look for virgin, unrefined coconut oil, which is what you want, you’ll notice it’s very pricey. Here’s the best deal I’ve found. And I’ve looked everywhere. http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/bulkoil/a-c.html apparently everyone else knows how good a deal this is because they’re out of stock again.
Coconut oil is one of the few types of fats that is good for you……..really good for you. If I were disciplined enough I’d be taking several tablespoons of it a day. But it doesn’t really taste very good alone.
- Lowers LDL cholesterol
- Increases weight loss
- Protects against chemically-induced cancers
- Anti-bacterial and anti-fungal
- Great skin moisturizer
We buy it by the gallon and keep one in the bathroom to use as a moisturizer for us and the kids. We keep the other on our kitchen counter for frying. It’s a very stable medium chain fatty acid, so it doesn’t go rancid like other seed and vegetable oils. When you ingest rancid oils they act just like free-radicals in the body. And most packaged products are already rancid to some degree when they hit the store shelves.
We started buying coconut oil when I was pregnant with Isaac and I couldn’t stand the coconut smell. I don’t know if I’ve gotten used to it or it was just my pregnant nose, but I don’t smell it any more. The kids eat it every night after their bath when we rub it on them.
