Recipes » Latin America

Alfajores are sandwich cookies with cream filling. Different versions of the cookies are found throughout South America. For example, in Argentina, alfajores are made with dulce de leche in the center and are often dipped in chocolate. This recipe is for the variety native to Lima, Peru. The cookies are small, light, and flaky and are dusted with confectioner’s sugar.

This Puerto Rican recipe for rice pudding is thick and served in slices.

Chiles Rellenos, meaning stuffed chiles in Spanish, are green chile peppers usually stuffed with cheese and coated with an egg batter. This traditional Mexican favorite is easier to cook than you might think.

Here at Global Foods Online, we affectionately refer to Dulce de Leche as DDL. Meaning milk candy in Spanish, Dulce de Leche is a treat that was invented in Argentina after which it spread throughout Latin America. It is essentially a thick, creamy caramel. Making DDL from scratch can be labor-intensive, but this recipe uses a simplified method that requires almost no effort! If you have never tried DDL, you are in for a treat!

Fideo is a Mexican pasta this is a side dish and is made almost exactly like Mexican Rice.

Flan is a traditional Mexican dessert. This custard is baked in a dish coated with caramel sauce and then served inverted so that the caramel runs over the sides of the flan.