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Puerto Rican Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated April 27, 2017
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Get the best recipes for essential Puerto Rican dishes, including a mofongo with shrimp, Puerto Rican-style turkey and a pigeon pea and calabaza stew.
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Pigeon Pea and Calabaza Stew

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In Puerto Rico, cooks use fresh pigeon peas, which aren't readily available in the mainland United States. The dried variety can take up to two days of soaking, but you can substitute 1/2 pound of brown lentils, which can be cooked right out of the bag in only 45 minutes.

  • Buttery Pigeon Pea Dal (Mitti Handi Dal)

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Tostones with Smoked Salmon

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Tostones--fried, smashed plantain slices--are a great variation on the toast used for the familiar hors d'oeuvre of smoked salmon and herbed cream. Soaking the plantain slices may seem like an unnecessary step, but it helps remove some of their starchiness and keeps them white.

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Mofongo with Shrimp

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While shooting his Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy Fieri stopped at Benny's Seafood in Miami to try mofongo, a Puerta Rican comfort food. "The chef pulled out a wooden pilon (a kind of mortar) as big as a tree trunk and filled it with fried green plantains, garlic, salt and chicharrones (crunchy pork rinds). Then he used a baseball bat to mash it together." The dish is served with chicken broth on the side or topped with meat or seafood, like the sauteed shrimp here.

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Puerto Rican-Style Turkey

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Chef Bill Kim makes this curry-and-chile-spiced marinade inspired by lechon, a slow-roasted Puerto Rican pork dish that he learned from his mother-in-law. Because the flavors are intense, it's best to scrape off the marinade before grilling.

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Arroz con Pollo (Puerto Rican Rice with Chicken)

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Bone-in chicken adds a ton of flavor this Puerto Rican-style rice dish.

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Puerto Rican-Style Marinade

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The inspiration for this garlicky marinade was lechon, a slow-roasted Puerto Rican pork dish Bill Kim learned from his mother-in-law. In a twist, he also uses it on turkey cutlets.

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Slow Cooker Puerto Rican Chicken in Green Sauce

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The five hours it takes to prepare this chicken in the slow cooker are completely worth it. Trust us.

  • Golden Chicken Thighs with Charred-Lemon Salsa Verde

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Puerto Rican Red Beans and Rice

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Basic red beans and rice recipes are ubiquitous in many cuisines for a reason: kidney beans soak up a ton of flavor and, when served over rice, will keep you full for hours. While some cooks use ham or sausage, this Puerto Rican-inspired meal uses bacon lardons.

  • Gallo Pinto (Black Beans & Rice)

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Classic Sofrito

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This spicy, garlicky condiment from Eric Ripert's old friend Alfredo Ayala is excellent with all kinds of bean stews as well as with scrambled eggs, quesadillas or grilled meats.

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Puerto Rican Sofrito

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This Puerto Rican-style sofrito (not to be confused with Italian, Caribbean, Cuban, Dominican, Colombian, Haitian or Mediterranean sofritos) is made with roasted bell peppers, onion and garlic and flavored with herbs.

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1 of 10 Pigeon Pea and Calabaza Stew
2 of 10 Tostones with Smoked Salmon
3 of 10 Mofongo with Shrimp
4 of 10 Puerto Rican-Style Turkey
5 of 10 Arroz con Pollo (Puerto Rican Rice with Chicken)
6 of 10 Puerto Rican-Style Marinade
7 of 10 Slow Cooker Puerto Rican Chicken in Green Sauce
8 of 10 Puerto Rican Red Beans and Rice
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