Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sofrito, puerto rican pepper sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sofrito, Puerto Rican Pepper Sauce is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Sofrito, Puerto Rican Pepper Sauce is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Sofrito is the indispensable base of so many Latin American, Caribbean and most notably Puerto Rican dishes. It's a blend of garlic, onions, peppers and cilantro (or culantro, which is a more potent cousin of cilantro), plus sometimes tomatoes or tomato sauce and other seasonings. The base consisting of peppers, onion, garlic, and tomatoes.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sofrito, puerto rican pepper sauce using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sofrito, Puerto Rican Pepper Sauce:
- Take spanish onions, peeled & quartered
- Make ready green peppers, seeded & quartered
- Prepare red bell pepper, seeded & quartered
- Get cilantro leaves, (the more the merrier)
- Make ready garlic, peeled & seperated into cloves
- Get olive oil, depending on the consistency
My family's recipe produces a sofrito that is very flavorful, complex and oh-so-delicious! Recaito is a green aromatic puree of onions, culantro (recao) leaves, garlic, green peppers and ajies dulces (small sweet chile peppers). In Puerto Rico, recaito is used as the base seasoning known as sofrito. When preparing Puerto Rican cuisines, you may notice it called by either name.
Instructions to make Sofrito, Puerto Rican Pepper Sauce:
- Make sure all vegetables are washed.
- Combine all the ingredients in food processor
- Blend it while drizzling olive oil in it. It should have a puree consistency.
- If too thick add a bit of water, if too thin add more peppers or cilantro.
- When all blended transfer to a plastic container or a glass one.
- Cover & store in fridge for up to 4 weeks. Or divide half & freeze.
Sofrito is a Spanish sauce that consists of tomato paste, olive oil, onions, garlic, herbs, and peppers. Sofrito, which means "to lightly fry," forms the aromatic flavor base for a range of Spanish recipes. Sofrito is the base for most Puerto Rican dishes, and this one is better than store bought (difficult to find in the stores in the Western United States). This can be added to beans, rice, soups, stews, you name it. Sofrito is a basic blend of peppers, onions, garlic, and cilantro blended together to create a puree.
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