Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito
Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, puerto rican traditional sofrito. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sofrito is a basic blend of peppers, onions, garlic, and cilantro blended together to create a puree. A puree of pure bliss in a bottle! It is used in stews, rice dishes, Latin pasta dishes, bean dishes and a lot more!

Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook puerto rican traditional sofrito using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito:
  1. Make ready Recao
  2. Get Ajices Dulces (small sweet peppers)
  3. Make ready Cilantro
  4. Take peeled garlic cloves
  5. Prepare large red bell peppers (or 1 can of pimientos)
  6. Take large green cooking peppers (or bell peppers)
  7. Get medium onions
  8. Make ready water (optional)
  9. Take Salt (optional)

Great recipe for Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito. This comes from a Puerto Rican Tradition passed down for years. It can be used to cook almost everything. You can make a little or just enough to last you a month by doubling or tripling the amount of all.

Instructions to make Puerto Rican Traditional Sofrito:
  1. Take off the stems from the ajices dulces. Cut your peppers in chunks (discarding the seeds), and the onions
  2. Wash all your ingredients. Place all your ingredients in your blender. (You can also use a Food Processor, or even a Bullet.) You can blend without water, because it releases its own. BUT if your blender doesn't start, just add 1-2 tablespoons of water.
  3. Blend until you get the constistency you like then add your salt (optional). You can add water if its too thick.
  4. You can store a small pint container in the fridge and the rest in the freezer for freshness for as long as you like.
  5. When done be sure to wash your blender/food processor/bullet with hot water and soap so that the flavor of garlic and onion won't stay.

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. Sofrito is a staple in Puerto Rican cuisine, consisting of a saucy blend of herbs and vegetables used to season everything from rice dishes to soups. While many variations exist, culantro, a Mexican coriander and aji dulce – or sweet peppers – give traditional preparations of sofrito its characteristic flavor. Puerto Rican sofrito is used as a base when creating Puerto Rican meals. What makes Puerto Rican sofrito different is that no tomatoes are added to this recipe.

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