Thread: Recipe translation

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Originally Posted by Hoffmann21

Some relatives are coming over and they dont know english that well and i need to give them these recipe in spainsh, can you help me out?

ingredients

3 very ripe plantains

3 tbsp. flour
4 tbsp. melted butter
2/3 cup shortening or lard

1. Boil and mash plantains; add flour and butter and mix thoroughly.
2. Fry the beans in 1 tbsp. shortening for about 5 minutes.
3. Heat remaining shortening in another frying pan, add plantain mixture, 1 tbsp. at a time.
   
4. Fry the "pancakes" for about 5 minutes.

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OK, Hoffmann, since there aren't any native Spanish speakers online to help I will give it my best.

ingredientes

3 plantanos, bien maduro
3 cucharas de masa
2 cucharas de mantequilla ablandado
2/3 tasa de manteca

1. coce (hervir) los plantanos y hacerlos de puré; añade la masa y mantequilla y mezcle completamente.
2. coce (freir) los frijoles con 1 cuchara de manteca por 5 minutos.
3. calentar el resto de la manteca en otra sartén, añade una cuchara de la mezcla de los plantanos, una a una, para hacer panqueque.
4. coce (freir) los panqueques por 5 minutos, mas o menos

I hope this works. Any woman should be able to understand any errors I have made. Depending on what country she is from, she might know what a panqueque is....tell her it's like a tortilla

Good luck!

Originally Posted by exxcéntrica

Hola Vicente, el principal error fue lo de "cucharada" (teaspoon) y "cuchara" (spoon!!).
Normalmente se usan infinitivos en recetas.
Plátanos en España son siempre de Canarias. El tipo de "plátano " para freír son "bananas". Frijoles en España son negros...no sé si es esto. Aquí diríamos "judías", que pueden ser blancas, pintas (rojas) o canela( pink)

Hola Exx. Recuerdas que ya hablémos de los plántanos antes en otro foro. En los EU bananas son bananas y plátanos son plátanos. En centroamérica plátanos son plátanos y bananas son bananos.

Do you think that a woman, any woman, who knows how to cook would be able to cook this recipe the way I wrote it, bad Spanish and all?

What kind of beans can you fry in 5 minutes!!? What are they for?

Fry the beans

is not to clear to me as how to translate the word beans.
Usually, you can't fry beans, you must cook (boil) them first (unless you are using canned beans). There is no way you can fry beans (without previously boiling/cooking it) and not breaking all your teeth while trying to eat them.
In Cuba, as in Spain, we have black beans, white beans (judías), red beans, pink beans, etc.
What if these beans Hoffmann is referring to are green beans??? habichuelas...there is no mention of the beans in the ingredients.
These green beans you can fry them, or just eat them without cooking them previously. So, Hoffmann, could you let us know about the beans?? Perhaps we can try the recipe at home.

Well, Vicente, if the woman knows how to cook, my answer is "nyes". But if she doesn't, she would have gone with the recipe and then, I mean, a spoon is not a teaspoon, imagine the amount of everything!

Isn't it against the law for a woman not to know how to cook!!!

And the word "masa" if I had read that , I would have been at loss! And I would not have been able to imagine harina.

OK, I was wrong using masa for flour. Masa is the dough or batter. Flour is harina. But masa harina is corn tortilla flour. So is harina de maiz. I guess I should have said harina de trigo.

"Fry the beans in 1 tbsp. shortening for about 5 minutes."
Sandra wrote: Usually, you can't fry beans, you must cook (boil) them first (unless you are using canned beans). There is no way you can fry beans (without previously boiling/cooking it)

The beans were probably pre-cooked and mashed to make refritos (re-fried beans) but this recipe leaves questions. Assuming they were already cooked, what do yo do with them after you fry them for 5 minutes?? Maybe they're supposed to served on top of the panqueques

Frijoles en España son negros

Frijoles here and in Mexico are pinto beans. They are slightly pink...what you call canelas, I guess. To make refried beans they are boiled, mashed and fried in oil.