Caribbean

This classic Rum Cake recipe combines a moist, buttery cake infused with rum flavor and a luscious rum glaze that soaks into every bite. Perfectly tender with a delicate crumb, it's ideal for celebrations or any special occasion where a rich, flavorful dessert is desired. The cake is baked in a bundt pan to create an elegant presentation, and the signature rum glaze adds a wonderful sweetness and aromatic finish.

Learn how to make mofongo a very tasty plantain mash with pork and garlic mixed in that will become your new favorite.

Slow Cooker Jamaican Jerk Chicken is a flavorful and tender dish featuring bone-in chicken thighs marinated in a vibrant blend of traditional jerk spices and seasonings. This recipe uses a slow cooker for an easy, hands-off cooking method, resulting in juicy chicken infused with a perfect balance of heat, sweetness, and aromatic spices.

A delicious Rasta Pasta recipe that turned out so good! If you can't find Walkerswood jerk seasoning, a dry rub from Walmart is a good alternative. This creamy, flavorful dish features seasoned chicken, bell peppers, and a rich sauce.

Jamaican Toto is a popular Caribbean coconut cake that is a simple and delicious spice cake and dates back to colonial times. The batter is super easy to make and produces a sweet cake that needs no frosting. 

Make and share this Jamaican Bulla Cake recipe from Food.com.

From the America's Test Kitchen cookbook, same folks as cooks illustrated. They point out that if you dip your hands in water when rolling the dough into balls, it helps keep it from sticking to your hands. Also helps the sugar stick to the dough. Time does not include time to cool.

Pollo Guisado or Latin Chicken Stew is a hearty braised chicken stew popular in Caribbean, Central and South American cuisines, with loads of flavor and so easy to make!

Cooked on the stovetop or in the Instant Pot®, convenient one-pot meals like this chicken and rice dish make weeknights better. Flavored with McCormick® Hint of Salt Caribbean Jerk Seasoning – it doesn’t get any easier than this.

Ti-Malice is a popular Caribbean hot sauce from Haiti made with fiery Scotch Bonnet chilies, with an interesting origin story in Haitian folklore. This is one of my favorite ways to make it.

This Curry Chicken & Cabbage is cooked with lots of flavor and spices like curry, turmeric, and all-purpose seasoning; it’s a great way to introduce Caribbean cooking into your home.

A taste of the Caribbean!

There's nothing like authentic Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken at all. Incredibly flavorful stewed chicken pieces that are braised to perfection until fall-off-the-bone tender in heaps of aromatics and spices. An insanely scrumptious chicken dinner with a taste of flavor-forward ingredients all over, you'll love this Caribbean favorite!

Jamaican oxtail stew is a classic dish that’s popular throughout the Caribbean. This slow cooker version of the dish is easy to make, rich and delicious.

With a stunning color as blue as the Caribbean waters, this frozen blue Hawaiian cocktail recipe looks like summer in a glass. Just add coconut rum, blue Curacao, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, then get ready to fall in love!

Spiced chickpeas are crisped in olive oil, then simmered in a garlicky coconut milk for an insanely creamy, basically-good-for-you stew that evokes stews found in South India and parts of the Caribbean. While the chickpeas alone would be good as a side dish, they are further simmered with stock, bolstered with dark, leafy greens of your choosing and finished with a handful of fresh mint. When shopping, be sure to avoid low-fat coconut milk, coconut milk meant for drinking or cream of coconut: All are very different and would not be suitable here.

Calling all spice, cheese, and shrimp lovers! This Jamaican Shrimp Rasta Pasta is a mouth-watering celebration of Caribbean colors and flavors. It can be made in 30 minutes and served as lunch or dinner.

Coconut kisses (besitos de coco) is the Spanish version of coconut macaroons. They are a favorite treat in the Caribbean and are much like a cookie.

Turn your next dinner party into a Caribbean getaway with this super easy One Pan Jerk Chicken with Red Beans and Coconut Rice recipe. This recipe is packed full of summery flavor. Not only is it delicious and simple, but its a beautiful dish as well! ENJOY!

Fairly easy to make CARIBBEAN GRILLED WHOLE RED SNAPPER with a great blend of spice from ground allspice, garlic, ginger, paprika, basil, and thyme. Moist, tender, and oozing with great flavors!

Seasoned with garlic, onions, and Creole spice, then infused with bay leaves, thyme, Scotch bonnet, and coconut milk. True Caribbean comfort food for the soul.

This Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken is full of Caribbean flavor and a perfect main dish for any day of the week. It’s the perfect stewed chicken dish when you want to have a taste of the islands.

This is a simple, slow-cooker version of picadillo, a beloved comfort food popular across the Caribbean and Latin America. (“Picadillo” roughly translates as “mince,” referring to the use of ground meat.) Its deep flavor comes from sautéed aromatics and tomatoes, simmered gently with ground beef and spices. Raisins and green olives give this Cuban-inspired version its distinctive sweet-salty-tangy pop, and here, they are added toward the end of the long cooking time so they retain their intensity. Picadillo is traditionally served with beans and rice, but you could also scoop it up with tortillas, or use it as a filling for empanadas or enchiladas. Some versions of picadillo include slivered almonds, so feel free to stir in about 1/4 cup of slivered almonds just before serving, or sprinkle them on top as a finishing touch.

I’m back to crazy, so please join me as I make my way through posting five days a week. To celebrate, I’m bringing America’s Test Kitchen’s slow cooker recipe for Caribbean jerk chicken. This is definitely the simpler way to make this dish since you can trade in hours of marinating and grilling time for the...Read More »