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What is the cuisine like in the Dominican Republic? Other than the prominence of rice and beans, Dominican food is really not similar to Mexican food, says MMRuth. Nor is it spicy. Typical dishes include paticas de puerco (pig’s feet), mondongo (tripe stew), rice and red beans, tostones (twice-fried green plantains), and yuca fritters. Sra. Swanky loves the traditional Dominican dish called sancocho, a delicious stew with yuca, cassava, pork, and other tropical veggies simmered in a rich broth.
What’s for dessert? Dominican flan is the richest and tastiest flan Sra. Swanky has ever tasted, largely because it’s made with both half-and-half and sweetened condensed milk. Tres leches cake and arroz con coco (coconut rice pudding) are typical, but possibly the best Dominican dessert is morir soñando (“to die dreaming”). It’s a kind of orange Creamsicle milkshake made from ice cold milk, orange juice, ice, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla. Taste it and you’ll understand the name, says Sra. Swanky.
MMRuth generally finds Dominican desserts to be too sweet but loves the prune pie her mother-in-law makes.
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When I lived there from 1992-1996 the typical meal was rice and beans usually served with carne guisada, a meat (90% of time chicken) cooked on stove top almost like a fricassee or curry like dish in tomato sauce, served with avocado . Sometimes Rice and beans with spaghetti with sauce, which I thought was pretty nasty and I did not at all like the version of spaghetti they make, it is totally...+READ
When I lived there from 1992-1996 the typical meal was rice and beans usually served with carne guisada, a meat (90% of time chicken) cooked on stove top almost like a fricassee or curry like dish in tomato sauce, served with avocado . Sometimes Rice and beans with spaghetti with sauce, which I thought was pretty nasty and I did not at all like the version of spaghetti they make, it is totally different from what my Italian heritage and family eats.It is soft and mushy with a strange tomato sauce and served on top of the white rice, usually with a slice of green tomato and finely chopped cabbage with a little salt and vinegar. I also has a lot of Rice and beans with beregena guisada, an eggplant dish which was very tasty. Mondongo was served on weekends with rice and yuca, mostly to the hung over...seemed to help. Some of my favorites were Mofongo, Sancocho,Lambi(a snail),Carne de Chivo(stewed goat with picante) carne de gallina (a free range chicken), Pasteles en hoja which was ground up root vegetables like yuca and potato with plantains filled with meat and stuffed into a banana? leaf and then cooked in boiling water. They made something I think was called Pastelon? it was made of ripe sweet plantains that were cooked and mashed with butter or oil and was layered like lasagna with meat filling and cheese. Pata de Vaca soup was also very good, who knew you could eat a cows foot and like it! Guandules(Pigeon Peas) was a very good dish, sometimes mixed with rice(called morro? I think), but I just ate them like a soup.The Repollo rejenno or Stuffed Cabbage was very good. Habichuela con Leche(beans and milk) was pretty good, they cooked beans in milk with sugar and spices and served it with cookies on top in a glass., this was for the Holidays. the Christmas dinner was my favorite with Roasted Pig, Enselada Russe (Russian Potato Salad), Morro of rice and beans. I think I also ate probably every street food they made. Bolas de yuca, Kippe, Cicharonnes de Puerco, Yannicakes, Pastelitas, Arepas de maize,Chicken done on the grill(best in world! served with pickled onions and cassava bread--delicious!) Hot Dogs and Tacos. The fish from nearby river fried was great..I lived way out in the boonies in Moca in "campo"as well as Santiago and the Capital and had friends both rich and poor. My favorite dessert was Biscocho Dominicano...cake made with espuma frosting(Royal Icing) and pineapple filling..best cake in world! I also drank a lot of Batidas (shakes) and jugos(juice) like limon,naranja,lechosa,remolacha,ceresa(my favorite). I would have to say that the food was very good but it was the Dominican people that made everything great!-COLLAPSE