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🧑‍🎨 A surname 🍫 Dark cigar wrapper 🍫 A dark cigar 🍌 Fully ripe 🍽️ Sweet fried plantain
maduro

maduro

8.3
A sweet side dish of fried ripe plantains
  • noun
  • /məˈduːroʊ/
  • UK
translation icon : maduros
  • The chef recommended pairing grilled chicken with crispy maduros for a perfect meal.
  • plantain maduros
  • sweet maduros

Examples

  • In many Latin American restaurants, you can order a plate of maduros as a delicious side dish.

  • These are maduros, feel the soft?

    Chef (2014)

  • For breakfast, she enjoyed scrambled eggs with fried maduros on the side.

Surface Forms

maduro singular
maduros plural

Etymology

Maduro comes from the Spanish word for 'ripe', from Latin maturus 'fully grown', and is related to English mature. As a dish, maduro means fried ripe plantains, so the name tells you the plantains are sweet because they are ripe.