Puerto Rico Street Foods

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Puerto Rican Street Food Recipes

From crispy alcapurrias to golden bacalaitos, Puerto Rico's beachside kiosks turn plantains, codfish, and dough into some of the Caribbean's most craveable bites.

Puerto Rican Bacalaitos Dish A Puerto Rico classic Jibarito—juicy steak, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, and creamy sauce, all nestled between golden, fried plantains. Chicharrones de Pollo, Puerto Rican Fried Chicken Empanadillas +8
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Puerto Rico's street food scene centers on the fritura, or fried snack, sold from beachside kiosks and food trucks known as chinchorros across the island.
Alcapurrias, Puerto Rican Appetizers
Puerto Rico's Most Iconic Street Food

Alcapurrias

Puerto Rico's beloved beach snack: a deep-fried fritter of grated green banana and yautia, stuffed with seasoned ground beef.

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Puerto Rican Bacalaitos Dish
Bacalaitos
Thin, crispy codfish fritters, fried golden and lacy-edged, a classic kiosk favorite along Puerto Rico's coast.
A Puerto Rico classic Jibarito—juicy steak, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, and creamy sauce, all nestled between golden, fried plantains.
Jibarito
A sandwich built on flattened, fried green plantains instead of bread, stacked with steak, cheese, and garlic mayo.
Chicharrones de Pollo, Puerto Rican Fried Chicken
Chicharrón de Pollo
Crispy, juicy fried chicken bites, deeply seasoned and golden, a favorite grab-and-go street snack.
Empanadillas
Empanadillas
Puerto Rico's mini empanadas: crescents of fried dough stuffed with beef, chicken, or cheese, sold hot at kiosks and stands.
Puerto Rican cuchifritos fried foods
Cuchifritos
The family of fried pork snacks sold at every kiosko and cuchifritería.
Stuffed tostones
Tostones Rellenos
Plantain cups filled with shrimp, chicken or picadillo.
Puerto Rican sorullos corn fritters
Sorullos
Sweet cornmeal fingers stuffed with cheese and fried, dipped in mayo-ketchup.
Puerto Rican quesitos pastries
Quesitos
Puff pastry twists filled with sweet cream cheese and glazed.
Tripleta sandwich
Tripleta
The three-meat sandwich of the food trucks, steak, pork and ham.
Puerto Rican piononos
Piononos
Sweet plantain rings filled with picadillo and fried in egg batter.
Puerto Rican morcilla blood sausage
Morcilla
Rice-stuffed blood sausage fried crisp, a cuchifrito classic.

A Guide to Puerto Rican Street Food

Puerto Rican street food comes from the kioskos along the beach roads at Luquillo and Piñones, and most of it is fried. Alcapurrias are green banana and yautía fritters stuffed with meat, bacalaitos are the lacy salt cod fritters, and empanadillas are the fried turnovers. Chicharrón de pollo is fried chicken chunks, and the jibarito swaps bread for fried plantain in a steak sandwich.

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