Dishes that should be tried in Cuba
• Dishes that you need to try to Cuba
Cuba is not only a terrific flavor, great people, magical beaches, but also the most delicious food in the Caribbean basin. From croquettes with melted cheese and ham to sweet plantanov - Cuban cuisine offers a rich taste and great flavors.
1. Known as the Cuban hamburger, frit - a patty of seasoned ground beef (sometimes mixed with chorizo), covered with crispy potato straws, all of it - between the two Cuban pastries. Some institutions even add eggs.
2 corn on skewer in Cuba is prepared in a special way. First, it fried, then rolled in cheese kotiha, generously sprinkled with chili powder and at the end add the lemon juice, which gives this dish a rich and spicy flavor.
3. While the traditional place of cooking paella is Spain, in Cuba you will find a local version of this dish - there it is made of ham, chicken, clams, chorizo, shrimp and lobster.
4. There is nothing better than to bite the warm churros sprinkled with powdered sugar, slightly crispy on the outside but soft inside. This is street food, you must try, because look how to prepare churros - this is half the fun.
5. You may be familiar with these balls like croquettes, but in Cuba they call kroketas - fried balls of molten soft cheese with ham slices.
6. While the "ropa vieja" does not sound very appetizing (literally the name means "old clothes" in Spanish), the dish itself is just amazingly delicious and consists of chopped beef, stewed in tomato sauce. Usually served with rice or tortilla.
7. cooking plantain (fruit of the banana family, but more starchy and contains less sugar) - a mandatory product of Cuban cuisine. Maduros plane trees - sycamores is caramelized, lightly fried to brown, sticky and sweet state.
8. Huevos habaneros - well known Cuban dish of eggs, consisting, in fact, from eggs cooked at sofrito (tomato sauce, garlic, pepper and onions).
9. Chicharrones - a crispy fried pork crust, which is prepared from a pork skin, or from the abdominal part.
10. Meat and potatoes, white rice and black beans in Cuban cuisine - this is a common dish, known in Spanish as "Moros and Cristianos".
11. Tostones or chatinos - is fried cooking plantain, a popular savory side dish in Cuba.
12. A relative of ropa vieja - waka frit - translated as "fried cow" and consists of beef, marinated in Lima, garlic and salt, then fried until crisp.
13. Flan - is one of the traditional desserts in Cuba; sweet smooth cake, similar to a jelly glaze. More solid form is made from caramel, eggs and milk.
14. The biggest difference between the Cuban and Mexican tamales is that the Cuban meat (usually pork) is mixed with the dough tamale, and not used as a stuffing. Cubans also use corn to prepare tamale - it is not as sweet and more crumbly than American corn.
15. Lechon Asado - a classic pork roast, which is prepared quite simple: roast whole pig to a crisp, and then the meat is served with mojo sauce - spicy Cuban marinade.
16. Medianoche ( "midnight" in Spanish) is similar to the Cuban Sandwich and is usually served in the nightclubs of Havana (hence the name). In contrast to the Cuban sandwich in medianoche no mayonnaise - just ham, pork, cheese and pickles between layers of egg bread.
17. Pulpeta - it is the Cuban equivalent of meatloaf, but it is not prepared in the oven. Instead, a mixture of seasoned ground beef and ham cooked on the stove and add into the hard-boiled egg.
18. Favorite chicken dish in Cuba - arrosion con Pollo - like paella, but no seafood. The dish is present rice and chicken, as well as the traditional basis of the sofrito.
19. Kostillitas - it's ribs with a Cuban twist: they are marinated and served with sour orange juice sauce, lime juice, oregano, garlic and olive oil.
20. Pikadilo kua-kua - a Cuban version of scrambled eggs. It is usually served with rice, and the dish is also present minced beef, eggs and cooking plantain.