Crispy quesadillas filled with black beans, sweet plantains and spinach

Caribbean Sweet Potato and Plantain Soup!

A quick yet complex beef curry with avocados and plantains from Marcus Samuelsson’s latest cookbook.

Canoas de Platanos Maduros (Sweet Plantain Canoes)

This satisfying meat stew is thought to have evolved from “Puchero Canario”

Empanadillas are the Puerto Rican version of empanadas, a stuffed pastry popular in Spain.