How to make Recaito

This is a Puerto Rican cooking base racipe called recaito.

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[homemademom1]

whats the correct spelling for the recaito leaves?? please send to me if you can cause i want to buy it..thanks in advance .homemademom1

[latinguyny]

@homemademom1 We Puerto Rican's call them RECAO and they are also called CULANTRO.

[mikeygeneral]

@homemademom1

" Recao leaves ". That's what was fucking up my Spanish dishes. I never used them and always wondered why my food never tasted just Spanish enough. Now it tast's exactly like the food i used to waste my money on at the Spanish spot in Brooklyn. I now make my own dishes. I'm Jamaican and a restaurant baby. A very good cook and wouldn't stop until i mastered Spanish cuisine. NOW off to India.... Wish me good luck.

[latinguyny]

@mikeygeneral Mikey if you are referring to Spanish cooking from Spain, that is a totally different cuisine, Island cooking from the Caribbean is an infusion of Spanish cuisine, a mixture of Spanish, Native indigenous Indian and African. Recao also called Culantro is part of the seasoning we call Sofrito. Some like yourself might not like the taste of Recao. I have many Jamaica friends and they love Recao, its just a matter of taste :).

[47f0]

I picked up a jar of the Goya brand Recaito, and it was okay, but it was missing something that I'd tasted in the homemade Recaito. I think it's the Recao leaves (also marketed in U.S. as Culantro). I made this recipe, with only one substitution, I used a cubanelle pepper in place of the sweet chiles. Great. Better, fresher taste than the stuff in a jar, and no MSG. I've been using it to kick up my black bean dip - yummy.

[latinguyny]

There is nothing like making it fresh, I never buy jarred recaito or sofrito when making it yourself is so easy. Only Puerto Rican's call it Recao, but they also call it Culantro, its very hard to find, in NYC its all over the place. The small sweet chili peppers are also hard to find, they are seasonal, substituting with another type is fine.

[drembden1]

Thank you so much for the recipe and demonstration. I probably won't buy Recaito in the jar ever again!

[wifeandmum]

I know down here in Miami you can get little Culantro plants at Home Depot. I got one on my porch. There is nothing like Culantro in Homemade sofritos. I have never made Recaito. I always make what my grandma calls "Aliño". She is from Ecuador. I think it might all be the same thing just some different ingredients here and there. Thanks for the video! I am trying to learn to cook Puerto Rican food. It's so good!

[47f0]

latinguyny - fortunately, I live in NYC's largest suburb - Florida. The ingredients are here - you just have to dig a little to find them sometimes.

[ThePeaceSeekerMaria]

My grandmother and mother put red pimienta and tomatoes in it.