The Ultimate Mofongo de Camarones | The Secret Sauce with Grossy Pelosi

pork cracklings

🥗Healthier: toasted nuts

💰Cheaper: fried tofu

Toasted nuts provide crunch while being lower in fat.

shrimp

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Chicken breast is leaner and more affordable.

Cut the green plantains into 1 to 1.5 inch thick rounds.

Soak the plantain slices in cold salted water to prevent oxidation.

Peel and devein the large shrimp, saving the shells to make stock.

Marinate the shrimp in olive oil and a homemade marinade (or pre-made) for flavor.

Prepare the sofrito by combining garlic, sweet peppers, Cubanelle pepper, red onion, cilantro, and culantro in a mortar and pestle, adding kosher salt to help break it down.

Bruise the ingredients in the mortar and pestle to release juices.

Heat olive oil in a skillet and add the prepared sofrito, stirring to combine.

Simmer the sofrito for about 1 minute until fragrant.

Add bay leaves to the sofrito mixture and simmer for a minute more.

Stir in Spanish style tomato sauce (or tomato paste) and mix well.

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