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Sofrito is a slow cooked flavour base

Onion, garlic and pepper are softened in fat before anything else goes in Sofrito is the Spanish and Latin American habit of cooking aromatics gently in oil until they soften and sweeten, then building the dish on top. The long, low heat drives off water and lets sugars brown slightly, which adds depth that raw onion cannot give. Italian soffritto and French mirepoix are close cousins with different vegetables. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Onion, garlic and pepper are softened in fat before anything else goes in. The figure is taken from British Library, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.