Recipes Index

Quick Shrimp and Tomato Stew
This shrimp and tomato stew is ready in less than 30 minutes and tastes great over white rice.

Red Yucca Empanada Dough
Every empanada recipe starts with the dough. Here is a simple red empanada dough made with flour, salt, water, and yucca.

Simple White Rice - Arroz Blanco
Rice is a staple food in the Caribbean and Latin Cooking. When you are looking for a rice dish that won't overshadow your other dishes, a simple plain white rice is acceptable.

Simple Coconut Rice Pudding
Try a simple recipe for coconut rice pudding, which is a favorite dessert in the Caribbean. This rice pudding recipe starts with cooked rice.

Pavochòn - Roasted Turkey
Roasting a turkey for Thanksgiving as if it were lechon (suckling pig) has been a tradition in Puerto Rico since the island became an American commonwealth and adopted the holiday. This flavor intensive recipe will go over well with the most discriminating of tastes.

Lamb and Roasted Pepper Stew Recipe (Chilindrón de Cordero)
Lamb and Roasted Pepper Stew (Chilindron de Cordero) an excellent lamb stew that you can serve for any special occasion.

Salted Codfish with Potatoes – Bacalao con Papas
This Salted Codfish with Potatoes Recipe (Bacalao con Papas) is easy to make. It's also a good example of how foreign ingredients have found their way into local cuisine.

Arañitas - Shredded Green Plantain Fritters
Aranitas are shredded green plantain fritters. Aranitas means little spiders in Spanish. This recipe gets its name from the shredded plantain, which look like spider legs when fried. The recipe is a variation of tostones.

Chef DonClark's Coconut Chicken Toston Cup Filling
Serve sweet but savory Chef DonClark's Coconut Chicken Toston Cup Filling in fried plantain cups.

Plantain Cups
Fill these plantain cups with your favorite savory fillings.

Salmon Tostada Salad
Bahama Breeze's Salmon Tostada Salad is a fresh, colorful take on Latin-inspired tostadas packed with fresh peppers, avocado and salsa topped with grilled Salmon.

Mild Avocado Salsa
This mild avocado salsa goes well with taco chips, chicken, or serve it as a salad replacement.

Rum Soaked Tropical Fruit Salad
Rum-Soaked Tropical Fruit Salad Recipe - a fruit salad made with tropical fruits soaked in light rum.

Dominican Chicken Noodle Soup (Caldo de Gallina)
Every culture has a chicken soup recipe. This chicken and noodle soup is popular in the Dominican Republic and just as comforting as any chicken soup recipe.

Traditional Chicken with Pineapple
Pollo con Pina a la Antigua. Don't let the word antigua in the title of this recipe fool you; it is not referring to the island by that name. Literally translated it means "old" and this recipe is a favorite traditional Cuban dish of chicken and pineapples.

Rice Pudding Recipe (Arroz con Leche)
Rice pudding is dessert sweetened up with cinnamon, vanilla, sugar and evaporated milk.

Yellow Rice and Corn - Arroz Amarillo y Maiz
Yellow rice is served in virtually every Latin culture. This simple recipe includes corn to the mix in order to gussy it up a little and it goes well with just about any meal.

Lime and Chive Flavored Butter Log
Lime and Chive Flavored Butter tastes great drizzled over fish or use to saute chicken, pork chops or veal.

Smokey Pineapple Flavored Butter Log
The tropical smokey sweet flavor of this Smokey Pineapple butter log goes well with seafood, fish, shrimp, lobster and scallops.

Stuffed Avacado Salad (Avacado Relleno)
This stuffed avacado recipe is a nice cold dish to serve during the summer. Serve in place of a salad or as a first course.

Sofrito with Culantro
Sofrito is a seasoned tomato-based sauce used as a foundation in Latin Caribbean cooking. This recipe uses tropical ingredients for an authentic taste.

Basic Sofrito
Sofrito is a seasoned tomato-based sauce used as a foundation in Latin Caribbean cooking.

Adobo Dry Rub
Adobo dry rub is used to season meat, poultry and fish. You can customize the recipe by adjusting the ingredients based on the spices you prefer. This recipe is the combination that my family and I like.

Surullitos - Cheese Corn Sticks
Surullitos is an easy recipe for cornmeal cheese sticks that can be served warm as a side dish or as a snack.

Caipirinha - Brazilian Rum Cocktail
Bahama Breeze's Caipirinha is an unusual drink that uses fresh limes muddled with superfine sugar, and cachaca, a popular Brazilian rum made from sugarcane and often referred to as Brazilian "white rum."