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Top 10 Latin Food Recipes per Country

Our food recipes are rich in flavor and influences coming from Spanish conquerors and African slaves mixed with tropical and indigenous tastes.

There is no doubt each country has specific characteristics and ingredients that make their cuisine unique, but overall there are what I call Hispanic food staples that you can find throughout Caribbean, North American and Latin American food pantries. I give a bit of history here Latin cooking section

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Hispanic America gave to the world corn, hot peppers, exotic fruits, chocolate, vanilla, cotton, turkeys, potatoes, squash, yucca, peanuts, tomatoes and tapioca. Tapioca and peanuts? yes, I thought they came from Asia!

Choosing the Top Ten

It was not easy, but based on the popularity and ease of these recipes here they are. The ones included here are known because they are a "must" for certain holidays like Hispanic christmas or Navidad, or because we -Hispanics- just love them and prepare them with simple ingredients we can find here in the U.S.

These Hispanic recipes are neither complicated (with the exception of tamales -at least for me!) nor are they designed to break your piggy bank. They are authentic recipes that carry the flavors of Latin culture. Enjoy.

Must Know Hispanic Food Recipes and Markets

Tamales
Latin Food Markets & Hispanic Grocery Stores

Top 10 Recipes Per Country

Argentina

Bolivia

Colombia

Ajiaco Bogotano
Chicharron or Chicharrones
Seafood soup recipe - Cazuela de mariscos al coco
Bunuelos
More Colombian Food Recipes

Cuba

Top 10 Latin Desserts Recipes

Other Dessert Recipes

Dipped Chocolate Strawberries

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Hispanic Facts
in the U.S.

One in seven people in the United States is of Hispanic origin.

Hispanics are a mix of European, African and Native American people.

In 204 B.C. Romans created the term Hispanic to identify inhabitants from the Iberian Peninsula
which encompass Spain and Portugal today.

The term Hispanic was adopted in the U.S. in the 1970s by the federal government in its census questionnaires.

The U.S. is the fifth largest Hispanic country in the world.

St. Augustine and Santa Fe were Hispanic cities founded before Plymouth.

Spanish is the fourth most frequently spoken language in the world.

Twenty countries speak Spanish as their first language.

70% of the Hispanic population lives in five states: California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.

Hispanics are the largest minority in the U.S.

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