Recipes

Tonita’s Tropical Fresh Salad

Tonita’s Tropical Fresh Salad

This is one of my favorite seasonal salads like in late spring and summer. I have been known to vary the fruits like adding strawberries for color. The sweet and savory taste from the tomatoes in Tonita’s Sweet Vine Cuban Sauce frame the avocado like a masterpiece. It is always a great way to use up any leftover sauce and homerun at parties and summer meals.

Cuban-Style Tostones

Cuban-Style Tostones

These round crisp plantains are a traditional dish and snack. They are a favorite among everyone and especially children, who can have fun flattening the tostones while they are warm with the palms of their hands before eating them. Tostones are a favorite side dish and they go with everything! Great as appetizers and served with Tonita’s spicy or mild Cuban Sauce.

Sofrito Shrimp and Quinoa

Sofrito Shrimp and Quinoa

This simple meal is full of nutrition in one dish. You are getting your vegetables and it’s quick to make because the sauce is already prepared. When my Auntie Retta, nickname for Loretta, would make this dish, she would have to make the sofrito, the spicy Cuban sauce, but she usually made extra and it kept for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. You can also freeze it until the next Cuban dish.