Cuban Archives - Closet Cooking https://www.closetcooking.com/category/cuban/ Cooking adventures in a small, closet sized, kitchen. - I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen. Sun, 03 May 2026 16:13:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 https://www.closetcooking.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Cuban Archives - Closet Cooking https://www.closetcooking.com/category/cuban/ 32 32 Chicken Picadillo https://www.closetcooking.com/chicken-picadillo/ https://www.closetcooking.com/chicken-picadillo/#respond Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:28 +0000 https://www.closetcooking.com/?p=87680

All of the flavours of a Cuban style picadillo with capers, olives and raisins with chicken! A Cuban style picadillo is a dish that typically includes ground beef, bell peppers, onions, garlic, oregano, cumin, bay leaf, tomato sauce, olives, capers, and raisins. This version makes a simple substitution of sliced chicken for the ground beef....

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The magical combination of the cuban and reuben sandwiches; corned beef, ham, pickles, mustard, sauerkraut, and russian dressing in a grilled cheese sandwich with plenty of melted swiss cheese! This sandwich combines all of the best things for two great sandwiches, the reuben with it’s corned beef, swiss, sauerkraut, and russian dressing, and the cuban...

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Pork burgers seasoned with the flavours of Cuban style roast pork, served Cuban sandwich style with ham, swiss, mustard and pickles! Cuban sandwiches, made with Cuban roast pork, ham, swiss, mustard, and pickles are super tasty and the flavours make for some amazing burgers as well! These burgers are pretty much the same as the...

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]]> https://www.closetcooking.com/cuban-burgers/feed/ 41 Ropa Vieja (aka Cuban Style Shredded Beef) https://www.closetcooking.com/ropa-vieja-aka-cuban-style-shredded-beef/ https://www.closetcooking.com/ropa-vieja-aka-cuban-style-shredded-beef/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:00:12 +0000 https://www.closetcooking.com/?p=80870

Slowly braised beef in a tasty Cuban style sauce with onions, peppers, garlic, olives and capers! Ropa vieja is a tasty dish with origins in Spain and it’s popular in Cuba. This is a stew where beef is slowly simmered in a tomato based sauce with onions, bell peppers and garlic. The beef, typically flank...

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Cuban style sandwiches with mojo grilled chicken, ham, swiss, pickles and mustard. Cuban style sandwiches with Cuban roast pork, ham, swiss cheese, mustard and pickles are always good and I sometimes like to change things up like by replacing the roast pork with grilled mojo chicken. These sandwiches are pretty simple, where you assemble the...

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A quick and easy Cuban style picadillo with capers, olives and raisins! Picadillo is a Latin American dish with many different variations based on location but sharing a common base of minced meat (ground beef in this case). This is a tasty Cuban style take on picadillo with olives, peppers, raisins and capers that is...

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Tender pulled pork in a citrus-y garlic mojo sauce in quinoa bowls with pineapple salsa, black beans, crispy tostones, and avocado! With the spring weather rolling in I have been thinking a lot about citrus-y flavours and these cuban mojo pulled pork quinoa bowls with pineapple salsa are my latest obsession! The pork is marinated...

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Grilled pork chops marinated in and served with a tasty Cuban style mojo or sour orange and garlic sauce! Now that grilling season is here I have a new recipe for the grill for you, these tasty cuban style mojo grilled pork chops! These pork chops are super simple, you marinate them in a cuban...

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A tasty Cuban sandwich with roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard in grilled cheese form! Up next for National Grilled Cheese month is a simple grilled cheese take on the Cuban sandwich where instead of using a Cuban bun and cooking it pressed style we use bread and butter and cook it grilled...

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A St Patrick’s Day take on a Cuban sandwich with corned beef instead of ham along with roast pork, pickles, swiss and mustard. I recently made some lechon asado (Cuban roast pork) and I used it to make some tasty Cuban style sandwiches . A reader recently suggested trying a St Patrick’s Day take on...

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