whats Puerto Rico's staple food please tell me if you know cuz i have a project due this Friday
2007-08-30 09:57:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Arroz Con Gandules - Puerto Rico's national dish is called Arroz con Gandules which is a rice-and-pigeon-pea dish nicely seasoned with sofrito and smoked ham.
Arroz y Habichuelas - The combination of arroz y habichuelas (beans and rice) are so common that the phrase beans-and-rice means essentially the same as "our daily bread" means in northern countries. Dried pink beans are slowly stewed with chunks of calabaza (tropical pumpkin) flavored with the sofrito base, and then ladled over a mound of rice. Sticky medium-grained rice is more popular in Puerto Rico than long grain rice or Uncle Ben's parboiled.
Plaintains - Almost as popular as arroz y habichuelas are plátanos (plantains, or cooking bananas). They are daily fare, whether cooked green, deep-fried and mashed as tostones, or boiled and seasoned with escabeche. They can be let to mature until they are spotted outside and golden inside, and then deep-fried as "maduros" or "amarillos." Sometimes they are baked instead of deep-fried.
2007-08-30 17:09:43 · answer #1 · answered by ira a 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to check out this information because it is a guess but i would say more like beans & rice. i have never heard of meat pies being a staple
2007-08-30 17:47:51 · answer #2 · answered by marquie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meat pies (pastelón de carne)
2007-08-30 17:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by luvis29 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-08-30 17:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by girlygirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Arroz con pollo--------it's chicken and rice mixed together!!!
2007-08-30 19:52:55 · answer #5 · answered by veronica h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋