Sofrito

NOTE: very high yield; you only need to make this like once a year or something.

Ingredience

• 3 large green bell peppers
• 3 large spanish onions
• 2 bags of aji dulce (about 10 peppers) OR 1 red bell pepper
• 1 head of garlic, peeled
• 1 large bunch cilantro
• 1/2 bunch recao (or more cilantro if you can’t find recao)

Instructions

1. Remove stems and seeds from peppers, then quarter. Peel onions and quarter. Strip the cilantro off the stems.
2. Put everything in a blender or food processor until it’s finely minced. If your blender/food processor is too small you can do it in batches and just stir everything back together after.
3. You can use/freeze however you want, but I recommend buying 2 shitty ice cube trays and freezing the sofrito in them; each cube will be about a tablespoon. after a day, pop them all out and they should fill 2 gallon ziploc bags and you can pull them out as needed. Note: DO NOT USE THE ICE CUBE TRAYS FOR ANYTHING ELSE THEY WILL SMELL LIKE SOFRITO FOREVER.