Recipes using Lizano Salsa?

Question by Amber: Recipes using Lizano Salsa?
While on vacation my husband and I ate at a Costa Rican restaurant and loved the food there. A lot of the dishes there used Lizano Salsa, so when we got home we got a bottle of the salsa at an international foods market to try to make some stuff at home. But when I started looking online for recipes I could only find a couple. So I was wondering if anyone had some good recipes using the Lizano Salsa?

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Answer by W(aL)D
Looks like they have a bunch of good ones here: http://www.lizanorecipes.com/

These yummy Costa Rica recipes will be popular with your friends and family!

From dinner and main course dishes to delicious Costa Rican dessert recipes, almost everyone who goes to the land of Pura Vida comes back talking about the nutritious, hearty food.

Here are some of our favorite Lizano recipes.

*NOTE: Post your own recipes from Costa Rica at the Costa Rica Forum!

Costa Rica Recipes

Roast Pork with Salsa Lizano

INGREDIENTS

# 1 or 2 pounds of Pork Loin
# 1/2 of a 23-ounce bottle of Lizano Salsa
# Fresh cilantro, chopped
# 2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
# 1 to 2 tablespoons of Chipotle Sauce
# 1/2 cup of water
# Salt and pepper

This great recipe comes from CostaRicaProducts.com. They say that it’s “like a Costa Rican version of BBQ pulled pork, but much better.”

1. Cut the pork loin into 2 or 3 large pieces so it will fit in either a crockpot or stovetop pot.

2. Put the pork loin into the pot along with the garlic, salt, pepper, Lizano, Chipotle Sauce, and half the chopped cilantro.

3. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours in the crockpot, or simmer for 1 to 2 hours on the stovepot (or until fork tender).

4. Garnish with the rest of the fresh cilantro and serve with white rice and black beans.

Gallo Pinto Recipe

# 2 lb black beans
# 1 bunch cilantro
# 1 large onion
# 1/2 red pepper
# 4 cups white rice
# 1 teaspoon salt
# 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
# 3 tablespoons oil to fry the Gallo Pinto
# 2 tablespoons Salsa Lizano
# 1 tablespoon Habanero Hot Sauce (optional)

This is an easy version of Gallo Pinto, perhaps not quite as authentic as the typical Costa Rican Gallo Pinto but much quicker when you want Tico food in a pinch.

1. Season and cook black beans and simmer.

2. Cook white rice.

3. Chop cilantro, red pepper and onion into fine pieces.

4. Sauté the rice, beans, onion, pepper and cilantro together in vegetable oil for a few minutes. Stir in Salsa Lizano and, if a hotter version is preferred, stir in the Habanero Hot Sauce.

5. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve. YUM!

Costa Rican Iced Coffee

This simple recipe will make you want to brew extra Costa Rican coffee every morning just to have enough left over for an iced coffee.

Note: Makes 1 serving. Increase ingredients as needed.

# 1 cup Costa Rica coffee
# 1 cup crushed ice
# 1 cup milk
# 1 tablespoon sugar (to taste)
# 1/2 tablespoon honey (optional)
# 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup (optional)

Stir together coffee, milk, sugar, chocolate and honey until blended. Serve over ice.

Or, for a delicious iced coffee shake, blend all of the mixture and ice in a blender!

Recommended Costa Rican coffees for this recipe:

# Tarrazu coffee
# Dark Roast coffee
# Organic Coffee

…and here: http://www.lizanosite.com/LizanoRecipes.html

Olla de Carne (Costa Rican Beef Soup)

Ingredients

1 lbs Beef Stew
1.12 lbs yuca (cassava)
1 lbs of peeled potatoes
425 grms camote (yams)
2 green plantains (each cut in three and unpeeled)
2 corns on the cob (each cut in three)
1/2 gallon of water
1/2 onion (diced)
1 lbs Carrot (cut into 1 inch chuncks)
1/2 red pepper
5 Garlic cloves thinly sliced
2 tsp tomillo (thyme)
Salt to taste

Preparation:
In a pot, add water, beef, tomillo, garlic, red pepper, and onion and
cook for 15 mins at high heat. Then cook for another 30 mins
at medium heat.
Add yuca, camote (yams), potatoes, green plantains (unpeeled), corn, carrots. Cook for 10 mins at high heat and for 20 mins at medium
heat. Add salt to taste. Let eat for 10 mins.

Purchase the following
ingredients of this
recipe:

1.12 lbs yuca (cassava)
425 grms camote (yams)
Tomillo

Price: $ 7.75

Gallo Pinto (rice and beans Costa Rican style)

Ingredients:

1 Cup Cooked Rice
2 tsp salt
4 tbsp olive oil
1 Cup Black Beans
1/2 Onion (diced)
1/3 Red Pepper (diced)
1/2 tbsp tomillo
1/2 tbsp Ground Pepper
3 tbsp Lizano

Preparation:
In a frying pan mix oil, diced onions and diced red peppers for 1 mins at high heat. Add ground pepper, salt, comino and Lizano. Add cooked rice and beans, mix all together and cook at low temp for 3 mins.

Purchase the following
ingredients of this
recipe:

Cup of rice
Cup of black beans
Tomillo
Lizano

Price: $ 10.99

Arroz con pollo (rice and chicken Costa Rican Style):

Ingredients:

2 Cups Cooked Rice
2.5 lbs Cooked Chicken Breasts
1 Onion (diced)
1 tbsp Celery (diced)
4 tbsp olive oil
4 Maggi Bouillon Chicken Cubes
5 Cups of Water
1 red pepper (diced)
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tbsp parsley (diced)
1/2 tsp achiote (annato)

Preparation:
In a frying pan cook onion with 2 tbsp olive oil for 2 mins at medium heat. Shred chicken and poor into pan. Add garlic, 1 cup of water, salt, achiote and Maggi cubes. Mix well. Stir for 1 minu

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