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Dominican Cookery Basic Knowledge

Chuletas Fritas (Dominican Fried Smoked Pork Chops)

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Explore our repository of cooking topics: techniques and tips, substitutions, and how-tos to make your cooking experience as easy as possible. Also, find here an extensive collection of articles to help you successfully cook our Dominican dishes and impress your guests.

Chuletas Fritas (Dominican Fried Smoked Pork Chops) with Tostones and Avocado

Cooking Basics and tips

Cooking in general - and Dominican cookery in particular - have its tricks, here we share some basic techniques and information to improve your success rate like how to measure correctly, tips for bread-making, and basic kitchen utensils.

  • Guandules, gandules, or pigeon peas.
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  • Casabe.
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  • Sazon-sofrito dominicano (seasoning-homemade ).
    Dominican Sofrito and Homemade Dominican Sazón
  • Dominican products in European market.
    Where to Buy Dominican Products Abroad

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Ingredient guides

Learn more about the ingredients that define our cuisine, from the ones familiar to international audiences (like rice) to the more obscure ones (like auyama) and Dominican fruits. Also, see our recipes to create some basics for that homemade goodness we love so much.

  • Berenjena.
    Eggplants: Recipes and Useful Guide
  • Bacalao (salt codfish).
    Bacalao: Recipes and Complete Guide
  • Batata (swee potato).
    Batata: How to Cook and Complete Guide
  • Tayota or chayote.
    Tayota: Chayote Recipes and Useful Tips

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How-tos and techniques

Videos and descriptions of useful cooking techniques, learn how to make perfect concón, how to peel plantains and yuca, and much more.

  • Beans (habichuelas).
    Habichuelas: How to Boil and Cook Beans, Complete Guide
  • Achiote Oil (Aceite de Bija)
    How to Make Achiote Oil (Homemade Aceite de Bija)
  • Yuca (cassava).
    Yuca: How to Cook and Peel & Cassava Guide
  • Agrio de naranja (bitter orange spicy vinegar recipe.
    Agrio de Naranja (Bitter Orange Spicy Vinegar and Sauce)

how tos ➜

Ideas and recipe collections

Looking for ideas for your meal or occasion? Check these: from Dominican celebrations (like Christmas, Lent and Easter, and birthdays) to easy homemade edible gifts.

  • Dominican Christmas appetizers.
    Dominican Christmas Appetizers
  • Ponche crema (rum eggnog).
    Dominican Christmas Drinks
  • Flan recipe.
    7 Flan Recipes
  • Rendir: Dominican Meat Dishes with Vegetables

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  • Habichuelas negras guisadas (black beans).
    Habichuelas (Frijoles) Negros (Stewed Black Beans Recipe)
  • Ensalada de aguacate (avocado salad).
    Ensalada de Aguacate (Dominican Avocado Salad)
  • Mangu (Dominican mashed plantain).
    Mangu (Traditional Dominican Mashed Plantains)

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