Latin Caribbean Appetizers and Snacks

Recipe for making cassava (yuca) chips, which are similar to potato chips. They taste great sprinkled with salt, but even better if served with salsa or a dip.

This is a quick and simple, yet delcious, recipe for fried yuca and fresh corn fritters.

This sweet potato fritter (croquetas de batata )is an easy recipe for beginners and a hit with anyone who likes sweet potatoes. Make these small fried sweet potato rolls for an appetizer, party snack, or side dish.

Recipe for savory fried cheese balls (bolitas de queso) with a tangy sweet guava dipping sauce. It's the perfect party fritter.

Alcapurrias are fried, gound beef filled, fritters from the Caribbeam made from a mixture of grated yautia (taro root) and green banana.

Arañitas are shredded green plantain fritters. Arañitas 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.

Bahama Breeze's recipe for Creole Baked Goat Cheese is a flavorful combination of fresh Chevre goat cheese, vine-ripened tomato, sweet onion, fresh garlic and cilantro served in roasted red pepper wedges.

Battered, fried, and stuffed with cheese, piononos are the perfect finger food for parties.

Try this easy recipe for cheese straws wafers for a teatime cheese treat.. Learn how to make cheese straw wafers.

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

This cornmeal and cheese fritter recipe is quick and simple. It makes a great snack, side dish, or finger food for parties.

This fried desert bananas with cheese recipe (Guineitos Fritos con Queso) is one way to prepare small desert bananas.

Miniature Papas Rellenas (stuffed potato balls) are perfect for snacks and appetizers. Large papas rellenas make a great side dish.

Fill these plantain cups with your favorite savory fillings.

In the Caribbean pinchos are grilled pork or chicken kabobs. Here is my garlicky version great for a summer cookout, snack or party.

Aloo balls (potato balls) are a savory mixture of mashed potatoes rolled into balls, battered and deep fried. Here's a recipe for making your own potato balls at home.

Here is a simple recipe for sweet rice fritters. Serve rice fritters for breakfast or as a snack. It's a great way for using up left over white rice.

If you have a craving for Latin Caribbean street food, try this delicious fried fritter made with shrimp, potatoes and Munster cheese. It's great for a snack or serve it as an appetizer.

Free recipe for a Puerto Rican dish called Surullitos (Cheese Corn Sticks). These tasty snacks are made from cormeal and are very easy to make.

Plantains are a staple in the Latin Caribbean diet. They are prepared many different ways, but tostones is the quickest and easiest. It’s a perfect recipe for beginners. You can serve tostones as a side dish or as a snack with garlic dip.

One way to enjoy a West Indian Pumpkin, or calabaza, is to turn it into fritters. Enjoy these sweet fritters as appetizers or as a snack.

Yuca fries are a good substitute for french fries. Yucca fries and french fries look alike and taste similar, too.

Bacalaitos take a little work to make because you have to soak the salt out of the Cod. But, they are well worth the effort and make an excellent or appetizer.

With this Jamaican beef patties recipe, you can learn how to make jamaican beef patties.

Spinach and split pea patty recipe. This Spinach and Split Pea Patty recipe is a rift of an Indian Vada and the West Indian Phulourie (split peas fritter).

Guyanese cheese pies made easy. How to make Guyanese cheese pies. A guide to Guyanese cheese pies.

Shrimp Accras Recipe: In the Caribbean fritters are called accras. Here is a simple delicious recipe for shrimp accras.

Recipe for pigeon peas accras. Here is how to make pigeon peas accras, which is a favorite fritter receipe in the Caribbean.

What is stamp and go? Jamaican codfish fritters, of course. Here's how to make stamp and go (cod fish fritters).

This is a Trinidadian accras recipe - a types of Caribbean accra made with saltfish.

How to make Haitian Accras. Recipe for Haitian Accras. Learn to make Haitian accras. Types of accras.

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