The Cuban frita: recipe in the fun style of chef Bradley Delgado

The Cuban-American chefBradley Delgado He shared with his followers the recipe for thefamous Cuban fritter, a dish that became extinct on the island but that endures in Miami thanks to the memory of the exiles.

With the fun style that has made him popular on social networks, theBoss Brad posted on his channelInstagram the ingredients of this dish, unknown to the new generations of Cubans:French fries, soft bread, beef, chorizo and white cheese for frying.

The recipe recommends grinding the meat with the chorizo, then flattening a portion as if it were a hamburger, grilling for two minutes on each side, putting the cheese on top to melt, and then heating the bread in the same juice as He has freed the flesh. At the end, assemble the frita and top it with many extra-thin cut fries.

Her recipes are usually always made in English, but don't worry if you don't know the language, you can enjoy her content because she mixes key words in Spanish, while she prepares her dishes.

In this case he hilariously referred to “the chips”, the “chorizo”.

Recently, Chef Brad had shared a funham croquettes recipe Cubanas and the succulent Cuban bread withonion steak, dishes that have also become a luxury for the population living on the Caribbean island.

Thefried It was a very popular dish in Cuba until the 1960s.

According to the testimony of several residents on the island at that time, it was sold in street carts, and the exiles who arrived in Miami in those years opened businesses sellingfried in South Florida, which still survive successfully on avenues such as Bird Road and 8th Street.

One of the best-known businesses, specialized in this dish, is the chain "The King of Fries".

However, in the Caribbean nation the dish was lost in the midst of the continuous crisis, the prohibition of the commercialization of beef for decades, and the lack of chorizo, not to mention that French fries are eaten once a year, if anything.

The new generations do not know this dish, since the closest thing, a very degraded version, could be the so-called bread with "hambergue" (a flour dough cooked with chicken broth and then fried), which is also scarce.