Tables: Puerto Rico's Guide to Great Dining

Official Restaurant Magazine of the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau

Sure, you learned Spanish in school. But did they teach you what yuca was? And the different ways to eat plátanos? How about the difference between chicharrónes and cuchifritos? Start your post-grad course here; you’ll eat better!

Así que hablas español? Pero si usted es de otro país hispanohablante, tal vez ha notado la diferencia entre algunos de los términos de su país y los de aquí. Esta lista contiene una selección de nuestras comidas favoritas.

English		Spanish		English		Spanish
bacon	........	tocineta	.	milk	........	leche
baked	........	al horno		mushrooms	........	setas
banana	........	guineo		onions	........	cebollas
beans	........	habichuelas		orange	........	china
beef	........	res		oyster	........	ostra
beef chuck	........	bistec		passionfruit	........	parcha
beer	........	cerveza		pastry shop	........	repostería
berries	........	bayas		pepper	........	pimiento
breadfruit	........	pana		pigeon peas (green)	........	gandules
caramel	........	custard flan		pineapple	........	piña
cassava root	........	yuca		plantains	........	plátanos
casserole	........	cazuela		plantains (fried, ripe)	........	amarillos
cheese	........	queso		plantains, fried	........	tostones
chicken	........	pollo		plantains, mashed	........	mofongo
cinnamon	........	canela		pork (roasted)	........	lechón asado
codfish (dried, salted)	........	bacalao		pork cracklings	........	chicharrónes
cooking (Puerto Rican)	........	criolla/o		pork snack (deep fried)	........	cuchifrita
cooking base, blended	........	sofrito		potato fritters (stuffed)	........	rellenos
corn pancakes	........	arepas		potatoes	........	papas
corn sticks, fried	........	sorullitos		prawns	........	langostinos
crab	........	cangrejo		pumpkin / squash	........	calabaza
eggplant	........	berenjena		quail	........	codorniz
eggs	........	huevos		red snapper	........	chillo
fish	........	pescado		rice	........	arroz
fritter	........	buñuelo		root vegetables	........	verduras
garlic	........	ajo		rum	........	ron
garlic dipping sauce	........	mojito		salad	........	ensalada
grilled	........	a la parrilla		sauce	........	salsa
halibut	........	rodaballo		sausage (Spanish)	........	chorizos
ham	........	jamón		scallops	........	vieiras
hamburger	........	hamburguesa		seafood	........	mariscos
honey	........	miel		shrimp	........	camarones
ice cone	........	piragua		sliced	........	rebanado
ice cream	........	mantecado		small	........	pequeño/a
juice	........	jugo		soup	........	sopa
large	........	grande		stew (Puerto Rican)	........	sancocho
lobster	........	langosta		strawberries	........	fresas
local bread	........	pan de agua		sweet pepper	........	ají
marinade	........	adobo		sweet potato	........	batata
meat	........	carne		toasted	........	tostado
meat turnovers	........	empanadas		watermelon	........	sandía
meat wrap (Puerto Rican)	........	pasteles		wine cellar	........	bodega

Inglés		Español		Inglés		Español
a la parrilla	........	grilled		langosta	........	lobster
al horno	........	baked		langostinos	........	prawns
adobo	........	marinade		leche	........	milk
ají	........	sweet pepper		lechón asado	........	roasted pork
ajo	........	garlic		mantecado	........	ice cream
amarillos	........	fried ripe plantains		mariscos	........	seafood
arepas	........	corn pancakes		miel	........	honey
arroz	........	rice		mofongo	........	mashed plantains
bacalao	........	dry salted codfish		mojito	........	garlic dipping sauce
batata	........	sweet potato		ostra	........	oyster
bayas	........	berries		pan de agua	........	local bread
berenjena	........	eggplant		pana	........	breadfruit
bistec	........	beef chuck		papas	........	potatoes
bodega	........	wine cellar		parcha	........	passionfruit
buñuelo	........	fritter		pasteles	........	Puerto Rican meat wrap
calabaza	........	pumpkin / squash		pescado	........	fish
camarones	........	shrimp		pequeño	........	small
canela	........	cinnamon		pimiento	........	pepper
cangrejo	........	crab		piña	........	pineapple
carne	........	meat		piragua	........	ice cone
cazuela	........	casserole		plátanos	........	plantains
cebollas	........	onions		pollo	........	chicken
cerveza	........	beer		queso	........	cheese
chicharrónes	........	pork cracklings		rebanado	........	sliced
chillo	........	red snapper		rellenos	........	stuffed potato fritters
china	........	orange		repostería	........	pastry shop
chorizos	........	Spanish sausage		res	........	beef
codorniz	........	quail		rodaballo	........	halibut
criolla/o	........	Puerto Rican cooking		ron	........	rum
cuchifrita	........	deep fried pork snack		salsa	........	sauce
empanadas	........	meat turnovers		sancocho	........	Puerto Rican stew
ensalada	........	salad		sandía	........	watermelon
flan	........	caramel custard		setas	........	mushrooms
fresas	........	strawberries		sofrito	........	blended cooking base
gandules	........	green pigeon peas		sopa	........	soup
grande	........	large		sorullitos	........	fried corn sticks
guineo	........	banana		tocineta	........	bacon
habichuelas	........	beans		tostado	........	toasted
hamburguesa	........	hamburger		tostones	........	fried plantains
huevos	........	eggs		verduras	........	root vegetables
jamón	........	ham		vieiras	........	scallops
jugo	........	juice		yuca	........	cassava root

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