Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pastelon de platano y carne (sweet plaintain and meat pie). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pour remaining plaintain mix and spread evenly. It's a very hearty meal and I suggest that if you are looking for side dishes to serve, go with a. Pastelon de platano y carne (Sweet plaintain and meat pie) Ground beef, Bacon or salt pork chopped, Apple sauce unsweetened, hard boiled eggs chopped, Ham flavor bullion, Sazon goya, Diced onion, Diced tomato Pastelon de platano y carne (Sweet plaintain and meat pie) Ground beef, Bacon or salt pork chopped, Apple sauce unsweetened, hard boiled eggs chopped, Ham flavor bullion, Sazon goya, Diced onion, Diced tomato Pastelón is a classic Puerto Rican dish made with layers of thinly-sliced sweet plantains, ground meat, and cheese!
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pastelon de platano y carne (sweet plaintain and meat pie) using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pastelon de platano y carne (Sweet plaintain and meat pie):
- Make ready Meat filling
- Get 1 lb Ground beef
- Prepare 2 slice Bacon or salt pork chopped
- Take 2 tbsp Apple sauce unsweetened
- Get 2 hard boiled eggs chopped
- Prepare 1 envelope Ham flavor bullion
- Prepare 2 envelope Sazon goya
- Make ready 1/4 Diced onion
- Take 1/4 cup Diced tomato
- Prepare 1/4 cup Diced sweet peppers
- Take 5 Spanish olives w/pimento chopped
- Prepare 1 pinch Oregano,Cumin, Cilantro
- Get 1 tbsp Sofrito (see recipe)
- Make ready 1/2 can Tomato sauce
- Take Plaintain mix
- Take 5 Sweet plaintains (yellow/ black skin)
- Get 1 cup Butter
- Prepare 1 cup heavy cream or milk
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
- Prepare 2/3 cup Parmesan cheese
In a casserole dish, start layering the mature bananas, then meat, then cheese. Plantains are a staple ingredient in Puerto Rican food as well as other Caribbean and tropical cuisines. Most people know of sweet plantains, but you can eat and cook with either ripe plantains (sweet) or green plantains. I've wanted to share a recipe for pastelón, a dish akin to lasagna that I love, for a while now.
Instructions to make Pastelon de platano y carne (Sweet plaintain and meat pie):
- Cut plaintain ends and into thirds. Boil in salted water with skin until fork tender.
- Cook bacon and brown your meat in the drippins. Add chopped and diced veggies, bullion, sazon, sofrito and spices. Cook until veggies are translucent, about 5 mins. And applesauce, tomato sauce and chopped eggs. Simmer on low until all the ingredients are combined. Taste and add your own flavors as necessary. Mix should have a bit of sweetness to it.
- Preheat oven and butter your lasagna pan. Set aside.
- The plaintains should be ready when the skin starts to separate from the plaintain. Remove skin and mash with butter,milk and cheese.
- Place 1/2 of plaintain mix on bottom of pan and spread evenly, Add all of the meat mix( I use a strainer to drain any oils from meat before dropping into pan). Pour remaining plaintain mix and spread evenly. Sprinkle any type of cheese as desired on top of pastelon. (I use fresh grated parm)
- Heat in oven for 30 mins until bubbly and enjoy! Buen Provecho mi gente!
Just about everyone I know that tries it also loves it. Dominicans call fried plantain slices "fritos" or "tostones". The main difference between bananas and plantains is that the former has more sugar and less starch, while the latter has more starch than sugar and has to be cooked before eating. A plantain's taste depends on how ripe it is - the riper, the sweeter. To assemble pastelon: Take your prepared square pan, start with a layer of plantains, then beef, then a fistful of cheese, repeat.
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