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Ingredients
8 leafy stems cilantro
1 medium green bell pepper
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
¼ pound aji dulce, halved with inner seeds removed (see note)
6 whole leaves recao, chopped (see note)
1 tablespoon vegetable or olive oil
Preparation
- Step 1
Combine all ingredients in a food processor and puree until smooth.
Aji dulce are small, sweet chili peppers. Recao is a green herb with a long oval leaf. Both may be found in bodegas and Asian markets.
Private Notes
Comments
Thank you for adding this item. There is no standard recipe, per se, for sofrito. If you put ten Puerto Ricans in a kitchen you will get eleven recipes!
Thank you for adding this item. There is no standard recipe, per se, for sofrito. If you put ten Puerto Ricans in a kitchen you will get eleven recipes!
> If you put ten Puerto Ricans in a kitchen you will get eleven recipes! This is why it's so hard to learn how to cook our food! And of course my mom's recipe is "I don't know, I eyeball it" 😂