Puerto rico culture: drinks and food

Although Puerto Rican cooking is somewhat much like both Spanish, Cuban

and Mexican cuisine, it’s a unique tasty mixture of Spanish, African,

Taíno, and American influences, using such indigenous seasonings and

ingredients as coriander, papaya, cacao, nispero, apio, plantains, and

yampee. Locals call their cuisine "cocina criolla".

Cocina criolla (Créole

cooking) could be tracked to the Arawaks and Tainos, the initial

occupants from the island, who thrived dieting of corn, tropical fruit,

and sea food. When Ponce de León showed up with Columbus in 1493, the

Spanish added beef, pork, grain, wheat, and essential olive oil towards the island’s

foodstuffs. Right after, the Spanish started planting sugarcane and importing

slaves from Africa, who introduced together okra and taro (known in Puerto

Rico as yautia). The mingling of flavors and ingredients passed

from one generation to another one of the different ethnic groups that

chosen the area, inducing the exotic mixture of today’s Puerto

Rican cuisine.

Appetizers & Soups

Dinner and lunch generally start with sizzling-hot appetizers such

as bacalaitos, crunchy cod fritters surullitos, sweet

plump cornmeal fingers and empanadillas, crescent-formed turnovers

full of lobster, crab, conch, or beef.

Soups really are a popular beginning for meals on Puerto Rico. There’s a

debate about whether among the best-known soups, frijoles negros

(black-bean soup), is Cuban or Puerto Rican in origin. Nonetheless, it

continues to be a savory, if filling, opening to some meal.

Another classic soup is

sopón de pollo disadvantage arroz

-chicken soup with grain- which seems to taste somewhat different in

every restaurant. One traditional approach to preparing this soup calls

for big bits of pumpkin and diced taters or yautias (the starchy

root of a big-leaved tropical plant whose flesh is generally yellow or

creamy white-colored).

The 3rd classic soup is sopón de pescado (fish

soup), prepared using the mind and tail intact. Again, this soup varies

from restaurant to restaurant and could rely on the issue during the day.

Typically, it is made from garlic clove and spices plus onions and

tomato plants, the taste enhanced with a small dash of vinegar . 5 cup

of sherry. Galician broth (caldo

gallego) is really a dish imported from Spain’s northwestern province

of Galicia. It’s prepared with salt pork, white-colored beans, pork, and

berzas (collard vegetables) or grelos (turnip vegetables),

and also the whole kettle is flavored with spicy chorizos (Spanish sausages).

Garbanzos (chickpeas), are frequently put into give flavor, body, and

texture to Puerto Rican soups. Probably the most authentic versions of the

is sopón

de garbanzos disadvantage patas de cerdo (chickpea soup with pig’s ft).

Into this kettle is added a number of ingredients, including pumpkin,

chorizos, salt pork, chile peppers, cabbage, taters, tomato plants, and

fresh cilantro leaves.

Not just a soup, probably the most traditional Puerto Rican dish is

asopao, a hearty gumbo created using either chicken or shellfish. One

well-known version, consumed once the grocery budget runs low, is asopao

de gandules (pigeon peas). Every Puerto Rican chef has his very own

recipe for asopao. Asopao de pollo (chicken asopao) requires a whole

chicken, that is then flavored with spices for example oregano, garlic clove, and

paprika, together with salt pork, cured pork, eco-friendly peppers, chile peppers,

onions, cilantro, olives, tomato plants, chorizos, and pimientos. For any final

touch, eco-friendly peas or asparagus may be added.

Primary Dishes

The aroma that wafts from kitchens throughout Puerto Rico comes

from adobo and sofrito -blends of spices and herbs that

give most of the native foods their distinctive taste and color. Adobo,

produced by crushing together peppercorns, oregano, garlic clove, salt, essential olive oil,

and lime juice or vinegar, is applied into meats prior to being roasted.

Sofrito, a potpourri of onions, garlic clove, coriander, and peppers browned in

either essential olive oil or land and colored with achiote (annatoo seeds),

imparts the vibrant-yellow color towards the island’s grain, soups, and stews.

Stews loom large within the Puerto Rican diet. They’re usually cooked

inside a caldero or heavy kettle. A well known the first is carne guisada

puertorrique&ntildea (Puerto Rican beef stew). The components that

flavor the chunks of beef vary based on the cook’s whims or whatever

is actually within the larder. These may include eco-friendly peppers, sweet

chile peppers, onions, garlic clove, cilantro, taters, olives full of

pimientos, or capers. Seeded raisins might be added occasionally. Meat pies

(pastelón de carne) would be the staple of numerous Puerto Rican

dinners. Salt pork and pork are frequently employed for the filling and therefore are cooked

inside a caldero. This medley of meats and spices is included having a pastry

top and baked.

Other typical primary dishes include fried beefsteak with onions

(carne frita disadvantage cebolla), veal (ternera) a la parmesana,

and roast leg of pork, fresh pork, lamb, or veal, a la criolla. These

roasted meats are cooked within the Créole style, flavored with adobo.

Puerto Ricans like such dishes as breaded calfs brains

(sesos empanados), calfs kidney (riñones guisados), and

stuffed beef tongue (lengua rellena).

A festive island dish is lechón asado, or barbecued

pig, that is usually cooked for any party of 12 or 15. It’s traditional

for picnics and al fresco parties it’s possible to sometimes catch the aroma of

this dish wafting with the palms, a smell that has to happen to be

familiar towards the Taino peoples. The pig is basted with jugo de

naranjas agría (sour orange juice) and achiote coloring. Eco-friendly

plantains are peeled and roasted over hot gemstones, then offered using the

barbecued pig like a side dish. The standard dressing offered using the

pig is ali-li-monjili, a sour garlic clove sauce. The sauce combines

garlic clove, whole black peppercorns, and sweet seeded chile peppers, flavored

further with vinegar, lime juice, and essential olive oil.

Puerto Ricans adore chicken, that they flower various

spices and seasoning. Arroz disadvantage pollo (chicken with grain) may be the

most widely used chicken dish around the island, also it was introduced lengthy ago to

the U.S landmass. Other favorite formulations include chicken in sherry

(pollo al jerez), pollo agridulce (sweet and sour chicken),

and pollitos asados a la parrilla (broiled chickens).

Most people to the area appear to love the fish and

shellfish. A well known fried fish with Puerto Rican sauce (mojo

isleño). The sauce is made from olives and essential olive oil, onions,

pimientos, capers, tomato sauce, vinegar, along with a flavoring of garlic clove and

bay leaves. Fresh fish is frequently grilled, and possibly flavored with garlic clove

as well as an overlay of freshly squeezed lime juice -a really tasty dinner

indeed. Caribbean lobster is often the most costly item on any menu,

adopted by shrimp. Puerto Ricans frequently prepare shrimp in beer (camarones en

cerveza). Another delectable shellfish dish is steamed crab (jueyes

hervidos).

Many tasty egg dishes are offered, especially tortilla

española (Spanish omelet), cooked with finely chopped onions,

cubed taters, and essential olive oil.

Resourse: http://welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/

Things Puerto Ricans are Tired Of Hearing

Video COMMENTS:

Sofi Zafaroni700 Zafaroni: Salsa music is a popular Puerto Rican dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s.

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Martillo_/ Set: Salsa is from New York by Puerto Ricans and Reggaeton is straight from Puerto Rico …

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the little mexican slave: We Mexicans are inferior indigenous slaves that is true, we are midgets dwarfs, ugly, fat, stupid Indians, with no muscles with the head bigger than the body, we have indigenous plain faces and we have super small dick maximum 2 inches, the pinches Puerto RicansBoricuas beat us mexicans in all sports, in music, beauty, economy, hollywood in everything Puerto RicansBoricuas beat Mexicans and also the Puerto Ricans fuck our mexican women, the dream of all Mexican woman is to have sex and married a pinche Puerto Rican manIt's true we mexicans are a bunch of 3 foot drug addicts and steroids users use have to understand we mexicans are inferior gay race of indigenous midgets with hats and boots that don't have muscle we mexicans are weak pussy we need steroids wey our dicks don't even get hard that's why Puerto ricans fuck our girls and not only that Puerto Ricans beat us in music awards all sports economy beauty peagents hall of fames hollywood etc..

Dominicano Soy 100% Hasta La Tambora: Salsa and Reggaeton are Puerto Rican !

el trio: 96% of Dominican kids under age 18 live in poverty.\n\nThe Dominican Republic is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. \n\nE ke pol eso yo odio sel un dominicano negro muelto de ambre coño me matooo no puedooo vivil asiii ke maldición mas mala coño\nLOS DOMINICANOS SOLO SOMOS LOS MEJORES CONSTRUYENDO YOLAS PARA ARRIESGAR SUS VIDAS Y TRATAR DE LLEGAR A PUERTO RICO ADEMAS LOS DOMINICANOS SOMOS LOS MEJORES MAMANDO GUEBO POR GOTA DE AGUA O GREENCARDS,TRAGANDO LECHE,MURIENDONOS DE HAMBRE Y ENFERMEDADES,SOBANDONOS LAS NALGAS UNOS A LOS OTROS Y PROSTITUYENDONOS Y METIENDONOS ESTEROIDES Y DROGA HAY SI QUE NOSOTROS LOS DOMINICANOS LE GANAMOS A LOS BORICUAS/PUERTORRIQUENOS HEHE.FUERA DE ESO LOS BORICUAS LE GANAN EN TODO A NODOTROS LOS ESCLAVOS YOLEROS MARICONES DOMINICANOS CAGA LECHES DE MIERDA QUE SON MAS FEOS QUE UN CARRO POR DEBAJO POR ESO LAS MUJERES NOS DEJAN Y SE VAN CON LOS BORICUAS.LOS DOMINICANOS SOMOS LAS PUTAS PERRAS ESCLAVAS A LOS PIES Y SERVICIOS DE LOS PUERTORRIQUENOS/BORICUAS ..

el trio: DEFINITION OF THE MEXICAN CITIZEN: 3 FOOT UNDOCUMENTED DUMB DICK AND DILDO SUCKERS WITH BIGGER HEAD THAN BODY AND STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS WITHOUT STUDIES, DRUG, SUPER POOR DYING OF HUNGER, UGLY AS FUCK PLAIN FACE, INDIGENOUS, BORDER JUMPERS, INDIAN DWARFS OF 3 FEET MAXIMUM HEIGHT, DRUG ADDICTS TECATOS, PRISION FOR FIGHTING WITH GAYS AND WOMAN, WANNABE CRIMINAL, GAYS ASS BUGARRONES THAT LOVE DOUBLE HEAD DILDOS IN THEIR NASTY HAIRY BROWN MEXICAN ASSES , SHITTY DEATH DOG WEST BACK SMELL, MUSIC FOR GAY FAGOTS QUEERS AND RIDICULOS LIKE MARIACHI AND BANDA,AND MEXICANS ARE CUCKOLDS THEY LOVE TO SEE PUERTO RICAN/BORICUA MEN FUCKING THE SHIT OUT OF MEXICAN GIRLS. IF DON'T BELIEVE ME GO ASK OR GO TO CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, TEXAS, NEW YORK, FLORIDA OR THEIR OWN PIECE OF SHIT FIFTH WORLD COUNTRY FULL OF POVERTY MINNIONS, SHIT AND LATRINES ALL OVER CALLED MEXICO GO AND SEE ..According to the New York Times: 38% of Mexicans are undocumented stupid dumb motherfuckers, 89% are Gay ass Indian minnions dwarfs mariacheros that like dildo and dick in the ass like mexican Juan Gabriel, 57% drug addicts. 23% lazy vacant without studies like the Mexicans who are in California, New Mexico and New york. 41% of Mexican get cheated on and do cuckolds and watch Boricuas/Puerto Rican men fuck their girls, and 1% professional. Mexican dwarves are full of shit and they are afraid of Puerto Ricans. Mexico is a shitty nasty super poor country just like Honduras, Salvador and Haiti. Fucking indigenous gay ass mexican cum starving motherfuckers I will continue to see this mexicans midgets emigrating to USA and Puerto Rico in the news when they find their miserable bodies in the border or in the sea or captured by the coast guard of USA and Puerto Rico HAHA inferior mexican monkeys HAHA today they captured and deported like 1000 Mexicans back to their fifth world shitty ass country full of shit, latrines, and poverty, Mexican Indian dwarves dildos suckers keep trying to get to USA or Puerto Rico to be slaves of us Boricuas/Puerto Ricans your masters inferior 3 foot mexicans.

Papo PR: Puerto Ricans are superior to mexicans and dominicans !!!!!

el trio: 96% of Dominican kids under age 18 live in poverty.\n\nThe Dominican Republic is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. \n\nE ke pol eso yo odio sel un dominicano negro muelto de ambre coño me matooo no puedooo vivil asiii ke maldición mas mala coño\nLOS DOMINICANOS SOLO SOMOS LOS MEJORES CONSTRUYENDO YOLAS PARA ARRIESGAR SUS VIDAS Y TRATAR DE LLEGAR A PUERTO RICO ADEMAS LOS DOMINICANOS SOMOS LOS MEJORES MAMANDO GUEBO POR GOTA DE AGUA O GREENCARDS,TRAGANDO LECHE,MURIENDONOS DE HAMBRE Y ENFERMEDADES,SOBANDONOS LAS NALGAS UNOS A LOS OTROS Y PROSTITUYENDONOS Y METIENDONOS ESTEROIDES Y DROGA HAY SI QUE NOSOTROS LOS DOMINICANOS LE GANAMOS A LOS BORICUAS/PUERTORRIQUENOS HEHE.FUERA DE ESO LOS BORICUAS LE GANAN EN TODO A NODOTROS LOS ESCLAVOS YOLEROS MARICONES DOMINICANOS CAGA LECHES DE MIERDA QUE SON MAS FEOS QUE UN CARRO POR DEBAJO POR ESO LAS MUJERES NOS DEJAN Y SE VAN CON LOS BORICUAS.LOS DOMINICANOS SOMOS LAS PUTAS PERRAS ESCLAVAS A LOS PIES Y SERVICIOS DE LOS PUERTORRIQUENOS/BORICUAS ..