Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pastelon de platano y carne (sweet plaintain and meat pie). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pastelon de platano y carne (Sweet plaintain and meat pie) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Pastelon de platano y carne (Sweet plaintain and meat pie) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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):
- Take Meat filling
- Take 1 lb Ground beef
- Make ready 2 slice Bacon or salt pork chopped
- Take 2 tbsp Apple sauce unsweetened
- Take 2 hard boiled eggs chopped
- Make ready 1 envelope Ham flavor bullion
- Prepare 2 envelope Sazon goya
- Take 1/4 Diced onion
- Take 1/4 cup Diced tomato
- Make ready 1/4 cup Diced sweet peppers
- Prepare 5 Spanish olives w/pimento chopped
- Take 1 pinch Oregano,Cumin, Cilantro
- Prepare 1 tbsp Sofrito (see recipe)
- Prepare 1/2 can Tomato sauce
- Prepare Plaintain mix
- Take 5 Sweet plaintains (yellow/ black skin)
- Make ready 1 cup Butter
- Make ready 1 cup heavy cream or milk
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
- Prepare 2/3 cup Parmesan cheese
Steps 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!
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