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Sofrito

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      Sofrito is the base on Puerto Rican Cuisine. This method of cooking have been in use for thousands of years around the world. What makes Puerto Rican Sofrito unique is the combinations of ingredients and the passion that's goes in making it.      Sofrito have two parts, first the base, some people call recaito. This part include, a combination of onions, garlic, peppers and herbs. The second part is to slowly fry the ingredients, adding annatto oil, cook ham, tocino(bacon), green olive, capers, tomato sauce and others ingredients (depend of the recipe ). Ingredients: 4 yellow onions, peeled, large dice 1 head of garlic, peeled 1/2 bunch of Culantro, rinse well and drain  1/2 bunch of Cilantro, rinse well and drain  1/2 pound of Ajices dulces, rinse cut in half and seeded  4  Cubanelle peppers, rinse,  seeded and chopped 1/2 tablespoon dry oregano Combine all the ingredients in the bowl of the food processor and grind until very fine. Pour the mixture into ice tr