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Traditional Cuban recipes and cocktails.

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Recipes with lard

Explore lard in our recipes and cocktails, with quantities, timings and step-by-step instructions.

4 recipes

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Fried golden yam balls on a plate, with two halves showing the light crumb with spearmint.

Ñame a lo trinitario with spearmint and cinnamon

Fried balls of mashed yam with lard, spearmint, egg, sugar, and cinnamon, adapted from a 19th-century Cuban cookbook.

2 h 15 minMedium
Fried Pork Chunks Chef Style

Fried Pork Chunks Chef Style

Fried pork chunks with garlic and sour orange mojo, oven-confit and fried in lard. Keep them in the fridge and fry just before serving.

2 hEasy
Fried pork chunks accompanied by onion

Fried Pork Chunks

Fried pork chunks in the Cuban countryside style: tender inside, golden brown outside. Perfect with white rice and black beans.

1 hEasy
Fufú de plátano

Fufú de plátano

Green plantain fufú with garlic, onion and lard mojo: a simple and tasty Cuban mash, ideal to accompany pork.

45 minEasy