The Latin American Kitchen Cookbook brings together 500 traditional and country-specific recipes from across Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.
Organized country by country, this cookbook is designed as a practical home-kitchen guide to the flavors, staples, comfort foods, street foods, sauces, sweets, breads, seafood dishes, stews, rice dishes, and celebration meals of Latin America. Inside, you’ll find recipes from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
This book includes classic dishes such as tacos al pastor, mole poblano, chiles en nogada, pupusas, feijoada, moqueca, pão de queijo, lomo saltado, ceviche, ajiaco, bandeja paisa, ropa vieja, arroz con gandules, pastelón, empanadas, tamales, arepas, hallacas, pabellón criollo, chivito, chimichurri, pebre, curtido, sofrito, salsas, desserts, and more.
Inside you’ll find:
500 recipes from 20 Latin American countries
Country-by-country chapters with regional food notes
A Latin American pantry guide
Beginner shopping list
Heat level guide
Ingredient explanations and substitutions
Master recipes for staples, sauces, beans, rice, masa, plantains, yuca, and more
Menu plans for weeknight meals, parties, street food nights, and family dinners
Recipe indexes by country, main ingredient, difficulty, seafood, desserts, sauces, street food, and more
This is a large, practical cookbook for anyone who wants to explore Latin American cooking beyond a handful of familiar dishes. Whether you are cooking Mexican, Brazilian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Argentine, Salvadoran, Dominican, or Central American food, this book gives you a wide range of dishes to cook from one region at a time or one recipe at a time.
A useful kitchen reference for home cooks, food lovers, cookbook collectors, and anyone who wants to bring the flavors of Latin America into everyday meals.
