Mofongo
 Mofongo |
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| Origin | |
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| Place of origin | Puerto Rico |
| Details | |
| Course | Main course |
| Serving temperature | Hot |
| Main ingredient(s) | Plantains |
| Other information | Popular throughout: Puerto Rico Dominican Republic |
Mofongo (Spanish pronunciation: [moˈfoŋgo]) is a fried plantain-based dish from Puerto Rico. It is typically made with fried green plantains mashed together in a pilón (which is a wooden mortar and pestle), 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.[1] Mofongo relleno is mofongo stuffed with stewed beef, pork, chicken or seafood, with stewed sauce poured over.
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Origins [edit]
The dish is ultimately of African origin and is a variant of a traditional 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 (mangú), Cuba (fufu de plátano), and Puerto Rico (mofongo). Starchy root vegetables and plantains are boiled then mashed until a dough-like consistency with water, butter, or milk. Mofongo is fried then mashed with broth, olive oil and seasoning. The consistency of mofongo is much more stiff than fufu.
Other version [edit]
It is also possible to make mofongo with cassava, bread fruit, ripe plantains, yam or a combination of cassava, green plantains, and ripe plantains called trifongo.
In popular culture [edit]
Food Network chef and host Guy Fieri featured mofongo from Benny's Seafood (in Miami, Florida) and from El Bohio (in San Antonio, Texas) on two separate episodes of his show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. He liked the dish so much that he called it the "best fried thing I ever ate" on an episode of the show The Best Thing I Ever Ate.[2]
Mofongo is featured in a Season 2 episode of Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell as the opening dish challenge.
In a Season 2 episode of Sanford and Son, Lamont tells his father that he has met their new next-door neighbor, Puerto Rican Julio Fuentes. Lamont tells his father that Fuentes gave him "a dish of some stuff that was terrific", which was mofongo.[3]
In The HBO Series How to Make it in America, Episode 5 of the second season is entitled "Mofongo". In it, the dish is prepared and served by one of the characters.
An episode of the Travel Channel's Man v. Food Nation set in Harlem showed the host, Adam Richman, visiting a Spanish Harlem restaurant called La Fonda Boricua, where they make a giant 12-plantain mofongo called the "Mofongaso".
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References [edit]
- ^ Antonio Benítez Rojo; James E. Maraniss (translation) (1996). The repeating : the Caribbean and the postmodern perspective. Duke University Press. p. 97. ISBN 0-8223-1865-2.
- ^ Video: Guy Fieri on Mofongo on Food Network
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