Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pastelon. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Pastelón is a classic Puerto Rican dish made with layers of thinly-sliced plantains, ground beef, and cheese! Think of it as a Puerto Rican version of lasagna. It's the perfect casserole to make for a potluck or family gathering.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have pastelon using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make pastelon:
- Get 1 packages shredded cheese
- Take 1 pepper
- Take 1 adobo
- Get 1 parmesean cheese
- Make ready 9 riped plantains
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Take 2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 butter
- Get 5 lb ground beef
Pastelón is a Puerto Rican dish with many interpretations across the island. Our version nestles thinly sliced, fried sweet plantains between layers of savory ground beef and mozzarella cheese. The beef mixture can be made a day before assembling the pastelón–just refrigerate until ready to use! Pastelon is the quintessential homemade dish, and it mixes the sweetness of fried ripe maduro with the cooked meat and sofrito, which is traditional in Puerto Rican kitchens.
Steps to make pastelon:
- peel plantains and cut in half put in a pot of water with 2 teaspoons of salt. let it come to a boil.
- in the mean time season the ground beef with adobo, parmesean cheese, a pinch of salt and pepper.
- in a pot add 2 tablespoons of oil and 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and water. add the ground beef and let cook
- when plantains are done place in a bowl with out water and smash it all up with two spoons of butter.
- in a casserole dish spread some butter then layer half of the plantains on the bottom and smooth it out.
- add all the ground beef smooth it out and top it off with some shredded cheese
- add the rest of the plantains and smooth it out and add the rest of the cheese on top
- preheat oven to 350 and bake for 30 minutes let stand for 10 minutes then serve
It's worth mentioning that there are several recipes, as is common with cherished dishes from our countries. We all swear that our grandmas or moms make the best variations of these recipes, so it's really the. I've never heard of Pastelon before, but it the flavor combo sounds really delicious and it looks amazing. I am definately down to give it a try! It's definitely worth a try for sure.
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