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Arroz con gandules, widely regarded as "Puerto Rico's national dish" [1] [2] [3] Puerto Rican cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes original to Puerto Rico. It has been primarily a fusion influenced by the ancestors of the Puerto Rican people: the indigenous Taínos, Spanish Criollos and sub-Saharan African slaves.
Local tales abounded about who won or almost won the lottery. [3] Puerto Rico's lottery includes daily Pega 2, Pega 3, and Pega 4 (“Pick 2”, “Pick 3”, and “Pick 4”) games, weekly regular lottery draws on Wednesdays (50 times annually), and two special draws, each prior to Mother's Day and Christmas.
Sorullos are a fried cornmeal-based dish [1] that is a staple of the Puerto Rican cuisine. [citation needed] Sorullos are served as a side dish or as appetizers (commonly known by the diminutive form sorullitos), and are sometimes stuffed with cheese. [2] They can be served with mayoketchup, coffee or dusted in confectioners' sugar.
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In Puerto Rican cuisine the dish is called hayaca and used to be a popular part of the island's cuisine. Unlike the Venezuelan variety, hayaca s from Puerto Rico are made not with maize but with cassava , stock, milk, pork fat cooked with annatto, and banana leaf, and baked in traditional open-wood-fire.
The dough surrounding the filling, the masa, is made primarily of green banana and grated yautía with optional addition of squash. Green banana can be replaced with breadfruit, cassava, taro, green or yellow plantains or other arrowroots.
Bacalaíto and fried pork. A bacalaíto is a salted codfish fritter, a traditional Puerto Rican snack that typically is eaten with an entire meal. [1] [2] Bacalaítos are served at the beach, cuchifritos, and at festivals.