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Plantanillas de Yema
Delicate egg-yolk sheets wrapped around thick carabao-milk yema and folded into small plantain-like parcels.
- Prep time
- 45 min
- Cook time
- 35 min
- Yield
- Makes 18 pieces
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Ingredients
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Method
- For the filling, cook condensed milk, yolks, butter, cashews if using, and salt over low heat, stirring until very thick and able to hold a mound. Cool completely.
- Whisk the yolks, flour, water, and salt for the sheets until smooth, then strain.
- Cook sugar, water, and citrus zest in a wide shallow pan until the liquid turns clear and just lightly syrupy.
- Drizzle a thin layer of yolk mixture into the syrup and poach gently until it sets into a delicate sheet.
- Lift the sheet with a slotted spatula, drain, and lay on a lightly oiled plate. Repeat with the remaining mixture.
- Place a small log of cold yema on each sheet and fold or roll it into a neat plantain-like parcel.
- Chill briefly to set, then serve at cool room temperature.
