Recipe: Appetizing Puerto Rican mofongo with a twist

Puerto Rican mofongo with a twist. Puerto Rican mofongo with a twist Sonja Sonja Sonja Westchester, New York. The classic Puerto Rican dish with a deli twist! Pastrami Mofongo is delicious on its own or topped with more meat and Mustard Amba.

Puerto Ricans absolutely love fried food - fried plantains, fried meats, fried vegetables and pretty much anything that can be fried in oils. Plantain mofongo is thought to originate in Puerto Rico, and is a dish made from fried green (unripe) plantains mashed together with garlic and crackling pork rinds, also known as chicharrón. To make mofongo, the plantains are sliced and fried until tender, and then mashed with garlic paste and pork cracklings. You can have Puerto Rican mofongo with a twist using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Puerto Rican mofongo with a twist

1. Prepare 1 packet of sazón.
2. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves.
3. Prepare 1 tablespoon of sofrito.
4. It's 4 spoons of lard.
5. You need of Shredded cheese any cheese.
6. Prepare 7 of green bananas.
7. It's of I pack of boudain sausages.

MashRoots Brings Puerto Rican Mofongo to College Hill MashRoots honors its founders' Cuban and Brazilian backgrounds with a twist on mofongo, a classic mashed plantain-based dish. Mofongo is a staple of Puerto Rican cuisine and is easy to find on the island, especially in the capital of San Juan. The best place to get it is at a restaurant that serves cocina criolla, or Creole food. The term refers to traditional Puerto Rican cuisine, and restaurants advertised as criolla are typically mom-and-pop diners with a family.

Puerto Rican mofongo with a twist step by step

1. Boil bananas till soft. Then peel..
2. Melt lard and put into pot with the peeled bananas and mash together..
3. Take casing off the sausages n cook in pan with sofrito garlic and sazón..
4. Spray non stick spray inside muffin pan then put half of your mashed banana mix in the muffin pan.
5. Make sure to press mix into the bottom and sides muffin pan.
6. Put sausage mix next then the cheese.
7. Top with the rest of the banana mix.
8. Spray top with non stick spray and bake for 25 mins at 350.
9. Till golden and there you have it my grandmas recipes with a modern twist.

Mofongo is a very popular dish in Puerto Rico that is made with green plantains. Plantains grow in the tropics, and is within the banana family (see image below). Some grocery stores in the states carry plantains, especially if there is a Latin community in the area. Mofongo is a very versatile dish, you can enjoy it stuffed, or as a side dish. At Rancho Mofongo we specialize in Mofongo, a dish with Puerto Rican origins made with a twist by our Dominican chef.