Recipes

Mojo (Cuban Garlic-Citrus) Marinade Recipe

Add Caribbean zest to your chicken, shrimp, and pork culinary concoctions

March 6, 2007

Mojo (Cuban Garlic-Citrus) MarinadeDavid Sawyer

While living in Cuba, historian, author and chef Maricel Presilla crushed the garlic for this sauce with a mortar and pestle that had belonged to her great-grandmother. This mojo marinade recipe can be used as a marinade and/or sauce for shrimp, pork or chicken.

What You Will Need

Mojo (Cuban Garlic-Citrus Marinade)

A staple of Cuban cuisine, this garlicky bitter-orange sauce is often used to flavor roast pork.

Yield: makes about 1 cup

Ingredients

1 small head of garlic, peeled and separated
1 tsp. salt
¹⁄₄ cup fresh bitter orange juice or 4 tbsp. fresh lime juice
4 tbsp. fresh orange juice
¹⁄₄ cup olive oil
¹⁄₂ tsp. fresh oregano, chopped
¹⁄₄ tsp. ground cumin
1 pinch dried oregano, crushed
Salt to taste

Instructions

Crush together garlic cloves and salt with a mortar and pestle, and put into a medium bowl.
Stir in fresh bitter orange juice or fresh lime juice and fresh orange juice, olive oil, chopped fresh oregano, cumin, crushed dried oregano, and salt to taste.