Burén

 ( Puerto Rican Cuisine ) 

Burén, also known as a budare

or a budali, is a cooking utensil in Puerto Rican cuisine, that originated in Taino cuisine throughout the Greater Antilles. It is a thick metal plate, and similar in structure to a griddle. During the Taino period, most buréns were ceramic. It was used by the Tainos to cook over a fire.

Suzanne Van Atten (2023). 9781640497573, Avalon Publishing. . ISBN 9781640497573

T. Castanha (2010). 9780230116405, Springer. . ISBN 9780230116405

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Background The Tainos used it to cook cassava and breadcakes called casabe. In Jamaica, a cassava flatbread of Taino origin is called bammy.

Lesley-Gail Atkinson (2006). 9789766401498, University of the West Indies Press. . ISBN 9789766401498

They ground the cassava first, before cooking it on a burén. A woodcut was made of Taino women cooking using this method.

Luis Martínez-Fernández (2019). 9781683401377, University Press of Florida. . ISBN 9781683401377

El Burén de Lula is a book about a chef using traditional cooking technique.

A short film features her and the burén. Arepas de mano.jpg|Hechas al burén

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See also

• Griddle
• Comal (cookware)

Categories: Puerto Rican Cuisine

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