The dish is topped with sautéed red onions that have been cooked with vinegar and oil.

Boiled mashed plantains can be traced back to Africans in the Congo region who were brought to the island during the slave trade.

The original word was something akin to "mangusi" and referred to almost any root vegetable that was boiled and mashed.

[5] Fufu is a dish brought over by African slaves into the Caribbean and parts of Latin America.

[6] A popular folk tale exists, in which this dish was served to American soldiers during the American occupation of the country in the early 20th century, and that one of the dining soldiers exclaimed, “Man, good!”[7]