Whether you decide to serve mofongo with seafood or meat, the texture of the smashed-up plantains must be protected.

Mofongo’s three main ingredients (plantains, pork cracklings, and garlic) seem straightforward on their own, yet when fried ...

Plantain fufu, pasteles, rellenitos de plátano, tostones, mole de plátano, mofongo are just a few of the dishes that come to mind. So many different Latin American countries and Central and West ...

While customers at this new Springfield pizza shop can get a slew of traditional pizzas, one menu item offers a fusion of two ...

Substitute mofongo for apple pie and you have a fairly good working list of priorities in Puerto Rico. The Boricua specialty — a heaping mound of mashed fried green plantains studded with crisp ...

SPRINGFIELD — Sure, you can find calzones for sale at lots of places. But at the soon-to-open Tower Pizza in Springfield’s Tower Square, you’ll find Mofongo Madness, a calzone with fried plantains, ...

mofongo consists of seafood, meat or vegetables atop mashed plantains; pasteles are made of mashed banana (or yucca) and stuffed with pork, chicken or cod; and lechón is smoky, roasted suckling pig.