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Caldo de Coco

Ingredients

  • 1 lata de leche de coco y 2 de agua
  • 1/8 taza de sofrito
  • 1 a 2 ajies dulces
  • 1 a 2 hojas de recao o culantro
  • Achiote en grano y ½ taza aceite
  • 1 a 2 sobres de sazon con achiote
  • Sal a gusto si es nesesario
  • 1 pedazo de bacalao (desalado)

Directions

Utilizar una caserola mediana, vertir todos los ingredientes. Cocine a fuego mediano meneando constantement, hasta que hierva. Para preparar el achiote en grano utiliza una caserola peque�a y echarle aceite y los granos de achiote y dejarlo hervir hasta que el color salga, eso lo utilizaras para darle color al caldo, no tienes que echarlo todo eso depende del color que desees, lo echas directamente utilizando un colador para que no caigan las semillas dentro del caldo. Cocina a fuego mediano por 30 minutos. Servirlo con Guanimes.

Recipe sent by: Amarylis Hadlock from Utah


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Find recipes like this and more in the recipe book Puerto Rican Cookery by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli. My mother gave me this recipe book on my 18th birthday and it has been my staple recipe book ever since.






Did You Know?

A species can be native without being endemic. Native species occur naturally in a region but may also be found elsewhere. Endemic species, however, exist naturally only in one specific place. Of Puerto Rico's 17 native coquí species, 13 are endemic, meaning they are found nowhere else on Earth.