Gordon Ramsay has angered Puerto Ricans with his take on what he called a 'staple' rice dish from the Caribbean island. The TV chef told viewers of his YouTube series Scrambled he was making pegao, a crispy rice dish.
But locals who saw the clip were quick to point out pegao is not actually a dish, it’s the word used to describe rice that sticks to the bottom of the pan.
Sharing the recipe with his 17.8 million YouTube subscribers, Gordon said: "I'll show you a local, beautiful dish made with leftover rice.
It’s called pegao. "Now the beauty of this dish is that it’s a staple. Nothing fancy, but the flavour profile is unique – and I mean unique." Puerto Ricans slammed the 54-year-old’s efforts saying pegao wasn’t what he had cooked at all.
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