- Green plantains, boiled and mashed
- Butter, pickled red onions
- Los tres golpes: fried salami, fried cheese, fried eggs
Mangú
Mangu with fried eggs and salami (tres golpes), Dominican Republic. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Mangú is the Dominican breakfast of record: green plantains boiled and mashed with butter and a little of the cooking water, topped with pickled red onions. The full order is los tres golpes, 'the three hits': fried Dominican salami, fried cheese and fried eggs alongside.
It is African in origin (the word likely from the Kikongo mangú), Dominican in execution. The onions must be quick-pickled in vinegar; the plantains must be green, never ripe.
Key ingredients
Where to try it
- Breakfast counters and comedores across the country.
- Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone cafés.
- Eaten with a cafecito, morning only.