African, Central American Recipes
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Easy Sofrito
The flavor bases called sofritos exist throughout the Hispanic world, and many are made with peppers, tomatoes, onions and garlic. Blanca Arzu, a Garifuna woman from Honduras, makes a lighter, more herbal version based on cilantro, onions, garlic and sweet peppers.
Machuca
Machuca is a staple of the Garifuna, descendants of intermarried Africans and Carib natives who live on the Atlantic coast of Central America. It's a sticky, satisfying mash of sweet and green plantains, rolled into bites and dunked into flavorful soups, similar to the fufus of West Africa.
Hudutu
This origins of this seafood soup — seared fish, shrimp and conch quickly poached in a simple coconut broth — can be discerned by its elements. It's a specialty of the Garifuna people, descendants of intermarried Africans and Carib natives who settled on the Atlantic coast of Honduras (as well as Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua), and the tropical coconut and abundant seafood speak to where they live. The fact that it's always served with machuca, a mash of sweet and green plantains, reflects the Garifunas' West African origins, where cassava and plantain mashes called fufu are a staple.