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Mofongo is a popular Puerto Rican dish generally made with fried plantains or, less commonly, yuca and breadfruit.[1][2] The dish is known as fufu de plátano in Cuban cuisine.[3]
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Mofongo is generally made from fried green plantains, although fried yuca or breadfruit are possible, which is mashed together with broth, garlic, olive oil, and pork cracklings or bits of bacon. It is often filled with vegetables, chicken, crab, shrimp, or beef and is often served with fried meat and chicken broth soup. Mofongo relleno, meaning stuffed with stewed beef, chicken or seafood poured and topped with stewed sauce.[2][3] The soup served with mofongo is often seasoned with saffron.
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A Dominican cookbook author says that mofongo in Dominican cuisine can be traced back to Puerto Rico [4] [5] but scholarship indicates the dish is ultimately of African origin and is a variant of a dish called "fufu" which is made from various starchy vegetables and was introduced to the Caribbean by Africans in the Spanish New World colonies such as the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and parts of Puerto Rico. But unlike mofongo where unripened plantains are fried, then mashed, fufu is made of either green or semi-ripe plantain boiled then mashed.[6] Both fufu and mofongo are seasoned after the plantains are cooked and mashed.
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