Name: Cuban Mojo
Yield: Makes About 1½ cups
Cuisine: Cuba
Ingredients: ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil; 8 large cloves garlic, cut into paper-thin slices or finely chopped; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro or flat-leaf parsley; ⅔ cup fresh sour orange juice, or ½ cup fresh lime juice plus 3 tablespoons fresh regular orange juice; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon salt, or more to taste; 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more to taste

Preparation info

Makes About
1½ cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

About

No, it’s not pronounced mo-jo. Mojo (mo-ho) is Cuba’s barbecue sauce, a sort of cumin and fried garlic vinaigrette that’s splashed over every imaginable dish, from palomilla (Cuban steak) to the Christmas Eve “Pig” (lechon asado). Cubans make their mojo with sour orange juice. Sour oranges can be found at Hispanic grocery stores, but excellent mojo can be made with fresh lime juice mixed with a