Home Page                                                                                                             Last Update 06/02/2013
BIENVENIDOS
Welcome to the internet home of
EL BORICUA
a monthly cultural Magazine

Dedicated to the descendants of Puerto Ricans

- Cultural Anthropology -

Puerto Rico,
Borinquen, Folklore and traditions -

email us


 

Food & Recipes
Ivonne's Food Blog
Coquí
Taínos
Jíbaros
Flag
Navidad Boricua
AfroBorinquen
Fact Sheet
Medal of Freedom
Poesia Criolla
Poets and Poetry
Book Reviews
Borinqueneers
Puerto Rican 101
BoricuaKids
Canciones Infantiles
Lesson Plans for Teacher
Word Puzzles 

Volunteer Positions

Advertising rates 



Tony 'The Marine' Santiago
Military History

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Puerto Rican Sofrito

1 large yellow onion
1 pimiento (Cubanelle) or substitute with green bell pepper
1 red bell pepper or 1sm jar roasted red peppers
1 medium head of garlic (2 tbsp. minced garlic)
12 ajíes dulces (hard to find and may skip)
10 leaves of recao - (Eryngium) (hard to find may substitute with cilantro)
¼ cup Spanish olives, pitted
1 tbsp capers
2 tsps salt
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tbsp crushed orégano
½ cup olive oil

Wash, peel, seed and coarsley chop everything. Put in a blender and pureé. Store in a glass jar covered in the refrigerator for later use. Freeze it in ice-cube trays and dump the frozen cubes in a freezer bag. This will be fried in achiote oil or tocino as the first step in recipes. This recipe makes about 2 large ice-cube trays. Use about 3 cubes for rice or soup that will serve a family.

Once you've made this easy recipe you will never go back to store bough sofrito. The aroma is simply intoxicating. . . .

Cubanelle peppers are the typical pepper used in the island - it is a sweet Italian pepper and not easily found everywhere.

The word sofrito comes from Italian immigrants to Puerto Rico - it means the same thing except their sofrito uses a few different ingredients and they don't use it as often as we do.

.

This website is the internet home of our ONLINE monthly publication, El Boricua, a cultural publication for Puerto Ricans.

On our website we post a sampling of the different topics and recipes we publish monthly. We do not have a recipe book. Subscribe to our online publication to get all our recipes.

Often requested recipes are posted to our FaceBook Account.

 


Soy Boricua, mi amor es - Puerto Rico.

 

We hope that you enjoy this site and that it will take you back to our ancestral land.

¡Ay le lo lai, le lo lai . . . . . !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



top

F

.