Puerto Rican Sofrito

Name: Puerto Rican Sofrito
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 1¾ cups (400 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: about 1 tomato (180 g) Tomato; about 1½ onions (150 g) Onion; 5 garlic cloves Garlic; about 1½ peppers (150 g) Green Pepper; 1 bunch cilantro (40 g) Cilantro; about ¼ bunch (5 g) Cilantro

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Illyanna Maisonet recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Illyanna Maisonet.

CONDIMENT · BEANS, RICE & BRAISES

A condiment for beans, rice & braises.

Illyanna Maisonet's Puerto Rican sofrito for beans & rice.

On the jar

PUERTO RICAN

Method: blend
Yield: about 1¾ cups
Ingredients: 6

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ingredients

Tomatoabout 1 tomato (180 g)
Onionabout 1½ onions (150 g)
Garlic5 garlic cloves
Green Pepperabout 1½ peppers (150 g)
Cilantro1 bunch cilantro (40 g)
Cilantroabout ¼ bunch (5 g)

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Puerto Rican food writer and author of the cookbook Diasporican; recognized with a 2023 James Beard award for her food writing.

Adapted from a Illyanna Maisonet recipe (Illyanna Maisonet / Substack).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Illyanna Maisonet / Substack (published as “Puerto Rican Sofrito”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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