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Hope you all had a nice thanksgiving yesterday. I know there is many food left over from yesterday, and you must asking yourself what to do with it. Today's recipe i know its a little heavy, but its one of the top choices Dominican culture plate. I personally like with cheese sticks or fried eggs, but some will prepared with the top most ingredients: Salami, white cheese sticks, onions.
Origin of "Mangu":
A little history the origin of mangu started back in 1916 when the Americans invaded the Dominican
Republic, afterwards the soldiers would go into town. Then one day one of the soldiers wanted to taste some of
the mashed plaintains they saw the locals eat, when they tasted it they
said "Man this is good" and pointing at it they said in short "man
good!" the local thought that the name of the mashed plaintains in
English was "mangu".
Ingredients:
- Plantains
- 1-2 eggs
- 4-6 Salami slices in small pieces
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- 1 tablespoon of vinegar
- 1 cup of cold water
- Salt
- 1 large onion
- Peel the plantains and cut them in half. Put the plantain in a pot with water and boil adding two tablespoons of salt to the mix. When the plantains are tender turn off the heat.
- While the plantains are boiling, heat two tablespoons of oil in a pan. Saute the onions, along salami, add the salt and the vinegar and save it. Scramble the eggs.
- Take the plantains out of the water once tender and proceed to mash them with a fork. Add the butter and cold water and keep mashing until the is very smooth. Top it off with the onions, eggs, and cut pieces of salami.
There was Mangu before the Americans got there. Not enough research was done for this. This is something that people joke about, but is not where the name Mangu came from. It came from the region of the Congo, when there was slave trade, from a Similar dish they eat made with boiled plantains. The name of the dish is Mangusi.
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