Recipe: Tasty Sofrito Puerto Rican

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Sofrito, also called Recaíto; is a staple to seasoning many Puerto Rican food dishes. If you've had rice and beans at a Latin restaurant, chances are that they used sofrito in their recipe. Truth is, sofrito is the base of most of our cooking. You can have Sofrito Puerto Rican using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sofrito Puerto Rican

1. It's 2 of Green Bell Peppers.
2. It's 1 of Red Bell Pepper.
3. You need 5 of Aji Dulces (Small sweet peppers - difficult to find and can be omitted).
4. It's 6-10 Cloves of Garlic (minced) (amount to preference).
5. You need 1 Bunch of Cilantro (hard stems removed).
6. Prepare 1/2 Bunch of Culantro (Recao) (hard stems removed - difficult to find and can be omitted).
7. Prepare 1-2 Tbsp of White Vinegar (to preference).
8. You need 2 Tbsp of Olive Oil.
9. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
10. It's 1 tsp of Pepper.

If you want an authentic Puerto Rican sofrito recipe, this one is for you! What is sofrito and how do you make it? Sofrito is the base for most Puerto Rican dishes, and this one is better than store bought (difficult to find in the stores in the Western United States). This can be added to beans, rice, soups, stews, you name it.

Sofrito Puerto Rican instructions

1. Combine all but Olive Oil and Vinegar in food processor or Vitamix (or blender that you have) and pulse/blend until smooth..
2. Put batch in mixing bowl and add Vinegar and Olive Oil and mix by hand. This is so that Olive Oil doesn't aerate and get whitish milky consistency..
3. Keep refrigerated or freeze in batches. Old ice trays are nice and make about tablespoon serving sizes when popped out. If you freeze, just add frozen, they'll melt and do just fine..
4. Get ready to love this when combined to food for a Puerto Rican flavor with additional onions and garlic if you choose..

This Puerto Rican version of sofrito—there are many different geographical variations—is a fresh mixture of onions, cubanelle peppers, garlic, cilantro, ajices dulces, cilantro, culantro, tomatoes, and red pepper quickly chopped into a fine paste in a food processor. Recaito is a green aromatic puree of onions, culantro (recao) leaves, garlic, green peppers and ajies dulces (small sweet chile peppers). In Puerto Rico, recaito is used as the base seasoning known as sofrito. When preparing Puerto Rican cuisines, you may notice it called by either name. Puerto Rican sofrito is typically green and we add the tomato sauce later when using the sofrito in a recipe.