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 caramelising.

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

Reader favourite: Cuban Ropa Vieja is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 3,654 ratings.