Tembleque
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Tembleque is a coconut dessert pudding from Puerto Rico[1] similar to blancmange and related to Spanish manjar blanco and Filipino maja blanca. It is one of the most popular desserts in Puerto Rican cuisine.[2]
Ingredients
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Tembleque can also be topped with a fruit relish or syrup usually made with sugar, liqueur, spices, fruit or simply chocolate shavings on top.[3][4][5]
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Cultural importance
It is a holiday dish, served on New Year's Day throughout the island of Puerto Rico.[6] While the recipe may have originated in Puerto Rico,[7] there are variants on the dish manjar blanco in Latin America, manjar branco in Brazil, and maja blanca in the Philippines. According to the Encyclopedia of Puerto Rico, published by the Foundation for the Humanities, each time a Puerto Rican migrant to the United States comes closer and closer to forgetting their roots, foods like Script error: No such module "Lang". bring them back and remind them of who they are, of their island, and of their grandmother.[8]
Tembleque
In Spanish, the word tembleque is an adjective used to describe something that shakes, or a noun to describe the shakes themselves. The dessert, due to its Jell-O-like gel texture, trembles, shivers, and shakes[9] if it has been prepared correctly.[10]
In popular culture
- "Tembleque", a reggaeton song by Template:Ill, describes the movement of Script error: No such module "Lang". the dessert, and Script error: No such module "Lang". the dance move.[11]
See also
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References
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