Cuban Garlic Recipes

Cuban cuisine — Ropa vieja, moros y cristianos, lechón — bold, slow-cooked Caribbean flavours — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Cuban cooks work with garlic, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and roasting.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with olive oil, ground cumin, onion, fine sea salt, dried oregano and green bell pepper. The dishes here span cuban classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.