Pastelón
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 Pastelón | |
| Alternative names | Piñón |
|---|---|
| Course | Main course |
| Place of origin | Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico |
| Serving temperature | Hot |
Pastelón is a Dominican and Puerto Rican dish. The dish is prepared differently on both islands.[1]
Ingredients and preparation
The pastelón is a casserole dish consisting of typical Latin Caribbean foods such as plantains, sofrito, and seasoned, mince meat (beef).[2]
Dominican Republic
In the Dominican Republic this dish is made with boiled ripe plantains and then mashed. The dish is often called Dominican casserole or ripe plantain casserole using typically Dominican style picadillo and chedder cheese. Mashed plantain os placed on the bottom of a backing pan and coved with picadillo and chedder another layer of mashed plantain is pla ed on top covering with picadillo and cheeder. The dish is then covered with aluminum and backed for an additional 35-45 minutes.
Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico pastelón is considered a Puerto Rican lasagna. Sweet plantains are peeled cut lengthwise in to strips and fried in butter and olive oil mix. The plantain replaces lasagna pasta. Diced meat is sautéed with most notably bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, herbs, spices, olives, capers, raisins, garlic, wine and other ingredients. Plantains are then placed at the bottom of a backing pan layered with meat filling, cheese and bechamel sauce or marinara sauce. This is then repeated about two more times making layers just like a lasagna. It is then baked. Plantains can be replaced with batata or boiled mashed yuca.
There is also another version where sweet plantains are turned in to lasagna pasta sheets mixing plantains, eggs, salt, and semolina.
Vegetarian pastelón is popular as well replacing meat with mushrooms, eggplant, squash, string beans, potato or chayote.
References
- ^ Browne, Kali Amanda (2012). Kali, The Food Goddess. Booktango. ISBN 978-1468906998. Retrieved 22 October 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Beyond Shepherd's Pie: Puerto Rican Pastelón de Plátano Maduro". Cooking Channel.
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