How to Cook Mofongo Recipe with Dingolay Hot Sauce?

Are you willing to try a different recipe with a twist? Try the Mofongo recipe to set your dining table with the best Puerto Rican dish that travels from Africa. This Mofongo recipe will bring newness to your dining table, and nothing else will make you happier. Try making it with Dingolay Gourmet Gourmet Hot Sauce to enhance its flavor as well as health benefits.

Introduction to Mofongo Recipe

All foods and dishes represent different cultures and traditions. The culture is carried and circulated across the world. People when migrating to a different place, they take their culture with them as well as the staple dish of their area. The culture also includes the cuisines and food, the specialty of their homeland.

The taste of food cooked by each person is distinctive. Hence, this is how the people bring their food to different areas. Later on, they name the dishes with modified names. Although the dish remains the same, the names only change. Sometimes, people add various other ingredients to enhance their taste. Most people love to cook and eat food.

The variations in the recipes are necessary. So that the dishes taste better. By adding different spices and stuffing people do this. Similarly, mofongo also has versatile recipes and ingredients. People become experts in the cooking of the dish. Also, the number of spices adds flavor to the dish.

Mofongo Recipe in Other Parts of the World

Traditionally, people found this dish in Africa. They made the dish mainly from the green, unripe plantains. They named the bananas used for cooking plantains. Africans loved to eat this dish. But around 1500, some of the slaves went to America.

People used to trade them. Those slaves then settled in America. They cooked their food by themselves. Similarly, they cooked mofongo dishes. The Native Americans liked this dish. They started making the dish by themselves also. Soon, this dish emerged all over America. People started adding variations to the dish. Some added spices and others modified the method of cooking.

Some people also made the dish with some stuffing. This stuffing was with meat, chicken, vegetables, etc. Some people also say the dish got invented on the Puerto Rico border. The recipe was later on written in a recipe book. Puerto Rico wrote the first-ever book in 1859.

Mofongo Recipe

People hadn’t categorized this dish under a single source of food. Rather it can be with meat, chicken, vegetables, and seafood. Sometimes people mix the garlic with the plantains. Initially, they fried the plantains. Then they molded them into a ball shape. These balls can be eaten as it is. Or they added them into a soup or broth.

How Dish is Presented

Usually, people make chicken soup or broth with fish. Sometimes they use shrimps also. They mash them with garlic. Many times, they serve the dish with salads like octopus one. They make small balls out of it. They serve the dish in the main course. Stuffing it with meat or chicken doubles the flavors of the dish. You can also try this recipe with rice and lentils.

Importance of the Dish

The tradition of Puerto Rico contains mofongo. The basic method and skills to make the dish are from combinations of a variety of cultures. For example, Africa, Spain, and Puerto Rico. Sometimes it may be used as a side course of a meal.

Particularly, the plantains are grown and harvested in Asian countries. Likewise, they grow in the regions where the temperature is hot. And rainfall is abundant. Unlike a banana, people must utilize them when they are not ripened. They are green.

And they are softer than the bananas. To make the perfect dish, never use yellow or ripened plantains. The use of yellow plantains will make the dish taste sweeter and less starchy. Also, their texture changes upon frying.

Ingredients of Mofongo Recipe

• Plantains (green)
• Pork rinds
• Crushed garlic
• Chicken stock
• Cooking Oil
• Salt according to taste
• Pepper half teaspoon

Steps of Making Mofongo

• First, remove the skin from them
• Then, reduce their sizes by cutting them
• Now, sprinkle some salt and pepper on them
• In a pan fry the plantains using oil
• When they are fried, remove them from the pan
• Place a tissue paper in a plate to soak the excess oil
• Now use a mortar
• Add some fried plantains and pork rinds together to it
• Mash them
• Using your hands, mold the mixture in a cup shape
• So that you can add the remaining pork to them for stuffing
• You can place them in chicken stock for flavors

You can try the Mofongo recipe with different sauces like the original Dingolay Tropical Gourmet hot sauces. Here you can also try other easy and quick delicious recipes to try new food every day!