Culinary Arts Fundamentals
Puerto Rican Food
By Vicky Romero
I love Puerto Rican Food because I love the flavor, unique
ingredients, cultures and recipes of Spanish food. But I have
one special dish called ‘Mofongo’. It is a delicious dish and the
flavor is inexplicable. It’s made of greens and bananas cut
diagonally into slices put in water with salt. The process to
make “Mofongo” is as follows: add the slices in a hot vegetable
oil until they are cooked, without toasting it. Crush the garlic
and mix with olive oil well. Grind 3 slices of fried plantain. Add
a bit of pork rinds and grind them. Add part of garlic with oil and
mix. Serve hot with can. Eat at breakfast time with half beans
and the other half of the ‘Mofongo’ and the top 2 fried eggs and
crunchy bacon, it’s so delicious. Or you can eat at lunch time.
Puerto Rican ‘Mofongo’ is served as a side dish for fried meat,
pork chops, seafood, or even salads and rice. You can also
accompany with chunks of chicken and sauce that you like.
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In Our Own Words 2016