Mofongo Relleno de Camarones

Mofongo with shrimp stuffing! Oh yeah! This Puerto Rican delicacy was inspired by a wonderful restaurant we ate at this past weekend! What is it you may ask? Well let me tell you! Mofongo is fried mashed plantains with lots of garlic and pork rinds. (I used bacon ofcourse!)

Here's what I did:

Mofongo

Ingredients: 2 green plantains, 3 garlic cloves, bacon and oil for frying. 

How to make it: Cut bacon into small pieces and fry it. Remove and reserve on power towels to soak excess grease. In the bacon grease, fry garlic for few seconds and remove and reserve. Then add some canola oil and fry the plantains cut into 1/4 inches (peeled obviously). Remove when done on paper towels. 

In a mortar add the garlic, crush and then add plantains few at a time and crush. Add bacon bits and more plantains until all is gone. Mofongo is ready!!! Recipe said it would be creamy but mine wasn't. But still yummy!

For the Shrimp Stuffing:

Ingredients: Jumbo shrimp (which is what I had), crushed tomato, a little bit tomato paste, garlic, sazon Goya, adobo seasoning, onions, carrots (coz I needed to use some up but u can add peppers to this dish) and cilantro (coz I had some)

What to do: sauté onion until translucent, add garlic, carrots, tomatoes and paste, sazon Goya and adobo. Add shrimp and cook until done and top with cilantro. 

Serve with mofongo! This stuff is yummalicious :)