List of Christmas Dishes - Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

  • arroz con gandules - yellow-rice and pigeon peas with olives, capers, and pieces of ham.
  • ensalada de pulpo - octopus salad
  • Dulce de papaya con queso Boricua - spiced papaya candy in heavy syrup served with Puerto Rican white cheese.
  • Escabeche - boiled green bananas and chicken gizzards in Puerto Rican style escabeche.
  • Macaroni salad - with tuna and peppers
  • Morcilla
  • Pasteles
  • pasteles de guineo
  • pasteles de yucca
  • Pastelón - sweet plantain "lasagna" smiler to pionono.
  • Pig roast
  • Potato salad - made with chorizo and hard-boiled eggs.

Drinks:

  • Coquito - Puerto Rican spiced coconut eggnog.
  • Piña colada
  • Rum Punch

Desserts:

  • arroz con dulce - coconut rice pudding with spices and raisins.
  • Bread pudding - soaked in coconut milk or guava juice.
  • Dulce de cassabanana - Musk cucumber cooked in syrup topped with walnuts and sour cream on the side.
  • Flancocho - flan with a layer of cream cheese and Puerto Rican style spongecake underneath.
  • Majarete - rice and coconut custard, made of coconut milk, milk, rice flour, sugar, and vanilla or sour orange leaves with cinnamon served on top.
  • Rum cake
  • Tembleque - a pudding made with coconut milk.

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