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Pastelillos

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Pastelillos are the Hispanic turnovers. There are many things you can fill them with, from chicken, beef,steak, and even dessert fillings. So yummy. You can make the disc's home made or buy them pre-made from any Spanish supermarket. The recipe for pre made calls for any type of meat of your choice, flour, disc's themselves, sofrito, salsa de tomate and you could even throw in some olives,tomatoes,potatoes or even platano's in that would be great too, and oh so savory and mouth watering. https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+of+pastelillos&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=SktDUA_aViVR5M%253A%252C0XYRffL9PzEMxM%252C_&usg=__kf3t2y7urCBq9FcOL9B7nmzLFcI%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOitfly5DaAhVDgK0KHe_NAFUQ9QEIQzAM#imgrc=fE3JiHpuds24ZM: Pre-seasoning the meat with various Adobo flavoring you cook the meat before you continue with the next. You basically just prepare the meat as if you are preparing meat for tacos, cooking in a skillet to brown and a

Pastelon ( The Puerto Rican Lasagna)

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I am going to take you to Puerto Rico, for one of the many delicious dishes of my culture. Today we are going to be making Pastelon, the Puerto Rican lasagna. Our Ingredients call for twelve items: Six Whole Ripe Maduro (Plantains) 1/3 cup of vegetable oil and 2 teaspoons 2 lbs ground meat 1 teaspoon dry oregano salt and pepper 2 table spoons of sofrito 2 table spoons of tomato paste 1 seasoning package of Goya 4 slightly beaten eggs 1 cup of mozzarella cheese 2 cups of green beans Before we put it all together we must fry our Plantains Mixing together the ingredients listed above we add the green beans in with the mean and seasoning and mix into a bowel until satisfied with the outcome. Then we will start to assemble just like american lasagna, layer by layer Laying down the first layer of platano we add the meat then cheese and cover with more plantains, Repeat the process until you are done. Your finishing outcome should look a little like this: