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    Filipino Style Cuban Rice with Mince Meat and Fried Bananas

    Published: Jun 16, 2015 · Modified: Mar 12, 2025 by Marita Sinden · Leave a Comment

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    Arroz Cubana is what this delicious Filipino Cuban-Style Rice is called and has everything that you look for in comfort food. It is meaty, flavoursome, sweet, full of different textures and satisfying.

    My English/Lebanese husband asked me why I have never cooked this for him before. To be honest I do not know why. Versions of the popular dish can be found in various territories that were once occupied by the Spanish.

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    The Spanish left a deep impact on Filipino culture. For instance, a lot of Filipinos have Spanish sounding surnames, so my cousins' surnames are "Barrientos" and "Escosio". Also, Tagalog, which is the most commonly spoken dialogue in the Philippines borrows many words from the Spanish language. "How are you?" in Tagolog is "Kumusta ka?" - which acoustically sounds very similar to the Spanish "Como estas?"

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    When anyone asked me to describe Filipino cuisine, I always tell them it's "Asian cooking with Hispanic influences". I think it is closer to Latin American cuisines because the climate and so the ingredients are quite similar.

    The best way to serve this is on a large dish where everyone can help themselves to the various ingredients that create this Filipino Arroz Cubana.

    More Filipino Recipes:

    • Ginisang Sayote with Chicken
    • Rellenong Talong
    • Bibinka

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    Filipino Style Cuban Rice with Mince Meat and Fried Bananas

    Marita
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Total Time 45 minutes mins
    Cuisine Filipino
    Servings 4

    Ingredients
      

    • 4 tablespoons sunflower oil
    • 5 cloves of garlic crushed
    • 1 onion diced
    • 500 gr minced beef
    • 1 medium potato peeled and diced,
    • 40 gr frozen peas
    • 3 tablespoons raisins
    • 1 tablespoon soya sauce
    • 1 tablespoon salt
    • ¼ tablespoon black pepper
    • 4 unripe bananas or 2 plantains, cut in half lengthwise
    • 4 eggs
    • 720 gr cooked jasmine rice
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    Instructions
     

    • Heat up 1 tablespoon of oil in a large frying pan.
    • Add the garlic and sauté until lightly browned. Add the onion and sauté until translucent. Add the minced beef and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes or until cooked.
    • Transfer this into a bowl and set aside.
    • Add another tablespoon of oil to the same pan. Add the potato and sauté for 10 minutes until browned. When cooked add the meat mixture, green peas, raisins, soya sauce , salt and pepper and cook for another 5 minutes. Now set this aside on a plate and keep warm by covering the plate with foil.
    • To the same frying pan add another table spoon of oil and fry the bananas on each side for 5 minutes or until lightly browned. Add the bananas to the plate with the meat mixture.
    • Now heat up the last tablespoon of oil and fry the eggs sunny side up.
    • Arrange the hot steamed rice, fried bananas, beef and fried eggs on a large platter or serve individually. Serve hot with banana ketchup
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