Mofongo’s three main ingredients (plantains, pork cracklings, and garlic) seem straightforward on their own, yet when fried ...

The Mofongo Madness, for $16.99, is a calzone stuffed with plantains, pork, mojo sauce, garlic butter and mozzarella, based on the Puerto Rican dish mofongo. It is then brushed with more garlic ...

and make a final mealtime of mofongo, mashed and fried plantains crowned with, for example, rich beef stew or pork rinds. 68 Aguadilla St., South End, Boston, 617-266-0900, manabostoncafe.com.

Substitute mofongo for apple pie and you have a fairly ... heaping mound of mashed fried green plantains studded with crisp pork cracklings — has many incarnations across the island: drenched ...