| Many Puerto Rican dishes are seasoned with a savory mixture of spices known as sofrito. |
| There are beautifully fried morsels of goat cheese, too, in a vibrant, tomatoey sofrito sauce that has an earthy red-chile undertone. |
| Working between two 36-inch pans, Jay began cooking grated onion and tomatoes into the rich, rust-colored alloy known as sofrito. |
| The best is arraultza, a round of baguette topped with sofrito, chorizo, and a perfectly fried quail egg: deli breakfast on a doll-house scale. |
| In a separate pot, make the sofrito placing first the onion, garlic, parsley and finally the grated tomato. |
| There is an endless number of dishes that I can start with sofrito, olives will enhance it, or stand on their own as a nosh. |
