Puerto Ricans, can you please advice me on making sofrito?!

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I make sofrito all the time. This is the method I use to make sofrito:

(Need ice cube trays and a food processor is essential)

Ingredients:

1 whole garlic (remove and peeled)
1 whole onions, peeled and cut into pieces
1 whole red bell pepper (remove seeds and stem)
1 whole green bell pepper (remove seeds and stem)
1 bunch cilantro (remove 1 1/2" of the stem (cut up)

Place all of the above cut up items into a food processor until it is all incorporated and minced up.

Place the mixture into ice cube trays, freeze. Once they're frozen, pop them out and place them into a zip-lock bag and store them in the freezer.

It is a great base for arroz con gandules; soups; habachuelas con salchichon or chorizo to name a few.

BTW, the elboricua.com website is pretty good for a variety of recipes. On you-tube I found that if you type in Puerto Rican cooking by LaGasse (not to be confused with Emeril Lagasse) is pretty good too.

There are many Puerto Rican, Dominican and Colombian dishes that are very similar.

HTH! Good luck

Personal Exp.

Real sofrito HAS to have culantro which is like Cilantro's cousin. I've had many sofritos and haven't had a bad one yet so you should be cool. The first one sounds more like me cuz I usually make a lot ( it's addictive,LOL)

And the third cornbeef one looks yummy.

For those who want to have that sofrito flavor without all the work you ought to try a delicious one from www.OldHavanaFoods.com and because Colombian, Cuban and Puerto Rican dishes are so, so similar this one will work for cooking ajiaco, arroz con pollo, picadillo, mofongo, arroz con gandules etc.

They sell a big jar (24 oz) for $5 bucks or so. Being a foodie I never thought it would taste as good as it does and it's very versatile and adds flavor to bunches of dishes. We've used it for stews, chicken and rice, tamal en cazuela, braised beef short ribs etc.

Keep in mind that the raw garlic in a traditional Puerto Rican sofrito can be very harsh on the stomach and a person's breath(!) The cooked sofritos are much more savory and make stuff taste very good without overpowering the flavor with raw onion or garlic taste.

There is a very good article on yumsugar.com about the various sofrito differences. See the link below.

?Buen provecho!

www.oldhavanafoods.com

http://www.yumsugar.com/What-Sofrito-How-Used-8916368