Authentic Mofongo Recipe Puerto Rico, North America

Green plantain, pork cracklings chicharrón, garlic, and salt is all you need to make mofongo. However, there is, thankfully, more than one way to make it. Often, olive oil or chicken broth is added to moisten the mixture a bit, and sometimes a ripe plantain is used instead of a green one, while the use of either cassava, taro, eddoe, breadfruit, or a mixture of plantains and cassava instead of plantains is also quite widespread. Also, mofongo can have a seafood or a meat filling — alternatively, these can be just poured over a mofongo — in which case we are talking of mofongo relleno. The preparation starts with frying the plantain slices until golden, then mashing them in a pilón, a special mortar from Puerto Rico. Once mashed a bit, garlic, pork cracklings, and salt are added, and the mixture is mashed some more until well combined. The mixture is then shaped into a dome and typically served with fried meat on top and broth soup on the side.... Read more