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Rellenitos

Name: Rellenitos
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Guatemala
Ingredients: 3 (ripe) Plantain; 200g (canned) Black beans; 30g Chocolate; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 4 tbsp Sugar; 2 tbsp All-purpose flour; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Granulated sugar

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Plantain dough wrapped around sweet black bean paste and fried — a uniquely Guatemalan dessert.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Rellenitos are a uniquely Guatemalan sweet: ripe plantains are boiled and mashed into a dough, wrapped around black bean paste sweetened with chocolate and cinnamon, fried, and coated in sugar. Using sweetened black beans is reminiscent of Japanese anko. They're eaten as a dessert or snack with coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a sweet shop on a cobbled street in Antigua, fresh sugar-coated rellenitos are lined up as tourists enjoy them with coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Plantain 3 (ripe)
Black beans 200g (canned)
Chocolate 30g
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Sugar 4 tbsp
All-purpose flour 2 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste
Granulated sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the plantains in thirds with the skin on, boil until soft, peel, add the flour, and mash smooth.
Blend the black beans and cook down in a frying pan with the sugar, chocolate, and cinnamon until the liquid is gone.
Divide the plantain dough into 10 and flatten with your palm.
Add the black bean paste, wrap, and shape into ovals.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden all over.
Roll in sugar.

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