Have you ever wanted to kick over someone’s motorcycle? I’ve never actually had that feeling until yesterday. Mostly because I know the guy who owns the motorcycle and he’s a Grade A Tool. Capital T. I didn’t kick his motorcycle over because I firmly believe in karma and I don’t want to crap on my own, but I did think about it. Just thought I’d put that thought into the world.
I’m a bad person.
OMG, guess what today is? The start to my cousin’s wedding. This wedding stuff is extremely overwhelming to me. I’m not very thoughtful. Weddings don’t excite me at all. And I lack the happiness and emotion that is usually paired along with a family member, like my cousin, marrying a man and spending the rest of their lives together. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m very happy for her. But I just don’t get very excited about married stuff. Maybe it’s because I’m young. Maybe it’s because I don’t ever want the big wedding shabang. I don’t know how to spell that word. Or maybe it’s because I’m a bad person. I don’t really know. Either way, we have two days of love ahead of us.
Today we start with a luncheon. Which, I don’t really know what that means other than lunch. Then we have mani/pedis, thank gosh, since I’m in dire need of one. Then we have the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. We’ll be eating New Orleans inspired food since that’s where her finance’s family is from. Ummmmmm YUM!
Then the wedding is tomorrow. We are wearing baby doll style dresses so hopefully when I start to dance, naughty parts don’t show. I’m also wearing wedges that are a disgusting height. They are not comfortable either. I don’t know what I was thinking. But I am hoping they loosen up a bit as the wedding day goes by. Or at least until the wedding is over and I can pull those damn things off at the dinner table. I really love wedges right now. They make my legs look SO much longer.
Now enough about weddings and love. Let’s talk about a different kind of love. Food love. I made this biscuits the other day and LOVED them. They are similar to my Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Biscuits, but more dense. And much sweeter. Because I made them extra sweet. Who does love a sweet biscuit with butter and jam on it? Do you ever go to a restaurant for brunch and just stare at the biscuits longing to stuff your face with them? But instead you just dip your finger in the jam for some kind of happiness to evoke in your brain? No? That’s just me? Whatever.
Either way, these biscuits are great. But you’ll have to check back for the jam recipe tomorrow. MUHAHAHAHAHA. Jokes on you.
Sweet Plantain Drop Biscuits
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 brown plantains (they must be brown!!)
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon canned coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1–2 teaspoons cinnamon (I used 2 because I love cinnamon)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut the ends off of the plantains, then use your knife to cute them in half lengthwise and then peel the skin off, cutting off any excess skin that sticks to the plantains. The browner the plantains are, the sweeter they will be and the easier the skin is to take off.
- Now place a large skillet over medium-high heat, add 3 tablespoons of coconut oil to heat up, then add the halved plantains to the skillet. Cook on both sides for about 3-4 minutes until browned, making sure not to burn them.
- Once the plantains are done cooking, add them to thefood processorand puree until they begin to clump together.
- Then add the maple syrup, coconut oil, eggs, and coconut milk and puree until smooth. No clumps should be present at this point.
- Now add coconut flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt to the food processor and puree one more time to combine everything well.
- Now line a baking sheet with parchment paper and grab an ice cream scoop to help form perfect sized biscuits.
- Scoop the batter out and plop each biscuit on the baking sheet about 1 inch away from each other. My batter made 8 biscuits.
- Place in oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until slightly brown and completely cooked through.
- Let cool. These babies are hot and need to settle afterwards.
- Eat with grass fed butter, or don’t, I don’t care. As well as my favorite jam. Which be on tomorrow’s post. Haha. Kbye.
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for some reason i feel the need to bake at 8pm at night and on a saturday nontheless, so glad i did ,these turned out great. 10 smaller sized ones, perfect with a bit of raw honey on top.
Brought plantains home the other night for my new-to-paleo Father, to which he asked, “what’s wrong with these bananas?!” Later I recieved a text saying he ate one mashed and loved it.
Decided to make him these, and I was licking the batter bowl clean. They just popped out of the oven and they are gorgeous. Thank you so much, Juli!
Ps. Just took a bite. He will LOVE them!
Thank you for being one of my inspirations!
I made these this past weekend and felt absolutely compelled to tell you how good they were!!! The joke’s really kind of on me. I’d never had plantains before and it was only because I thought I was buying bananas at an Indian supermarket that I bought them by mistake. I figured since I had them and they had finally turned black enough, I’d give your recipe a whirl. They’re moist, sweet and definitely a winner! Thanks.
I just made these and they are really good! Mine didn’t get as brown as the picture though 🙁 I am fairly new to cooking with plantains, and when I bought them they were pretty green. I let them sit for at least a week on my counter and they were still pretty greenish, but there were some signs of brown, and I really wanted to make these biscuits so I went for it. I’m wondering, maybe this is why mine weren’t a brown color like the photo? Or maybe I didn’t brown mine up long enough in the pan? Either way they are delicious, but I would like them to turn out browner next time! I will play around with it… thanks again for the recipe!!
Thank you for the recipe, they are DELICIOUS! I’m new to paleo and have had some disappointing recipes on other sites…bookmarking yours for good!
Delicious tasting batter, but like the reader above, the batter was very runny and made more of a pancake for me. Maybe I should’ve let the batter rest longer to give the coconut flour a chance to absorb more liquid? Idk. Or maybe I just can’t measure since so many others have made this successfully!
I would LOVE to make this recipe; however, I have tried multiple times to brown the plantains, and my other half throws them out saying they’re bad!! He doesn’t believe me!! One set of plantains apparently grew mold on the outside when I was waiting for them to brown, so the other half insists that they’re not good and throws them out! Any suggestions or proof he can read that they’re still good!?!
i’ve heard you can put them in a brown paper bag and they will brown
OMG is right! These are amazing. I didn’t have an ice cream scoop so I rubbed some of the cooled coconut oil from the pan on my hands and made-a some meat-a balls out of the dough and they came out beautifully!
I absoLUTEly will stick my finger into jelly. There is a yummy restaurant in Austin that has homemade preserves. Thank God, they had gluten-free bread. Now that I’m trying to eat more Paleo, I am not above making a pancake at home, sticking it in a baggie and taking it right into the restaurant with me. I know that it defeats the whole purpose of eating out, but there are times when I MUST have a pancake when eating out, somewhat like a normal person. Sigh.
I’m excited to try these drop biscuits. I’m jealous of anyone that sticks a biscuit in his or her mouth.
I appreciate your recipes, and I’m hoping that I also will want to marry your lemon raspberry pancakes.
Is Almond flour a good alternative for coconut flour? It seems like the only potential paleo substitute I can find out here.