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Congrí, Moros and the Cuban Plate

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⚠ CONGRÍ AND MOROS Y CRISTIANOS ARE NOT THE SAME DISH and Cubans will tell you so. MOROS Y CRISTIANOS is rice with BLACK beans, cooked together — the name is a Spanish Reconquista joke about Moors and Christians. CONGRÍ, strictly, is rice with RED beans and is the eastern form; the word is generally traced to Haitian Creole "kongo ak diri", beans and rice, which would make it a legacy of the Haitian arrival in the Oriente. ⚠ THE DERIVATION IS WIDELY REPORTED AND NOT CONCLUSIVELY DOCUMENTED. Around them: ROPA VIEJA, PICADILLO, LECHÓN ASADO with mojo, yuca con mojo, tostones, maduros, and the Christmas Eve pig.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Moros y cristianos denotes rice cooked with black beans; congrí strictly denotes rice with red beans and is the eastern Cuban form. The derivation of congrí from Haitian Creole for beans and rice, via the Haitian arrival in the Oriente, is widely reported and not conclusively documented. probable

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Haitian Foodways probable

    ⚠ Congrí is generally traced to Haitian Creole "kongo ak diri" and to the Haitian arrival in the Oriente. Widely reported, not conclusively documented.

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