Pastelón facts for kids
Pastelón
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| Alternative names | Piñón |
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| Course | Main course |
| Place of origin | Puerto Rico |
| Serving temperature | Hot |
Pastelón is a Puerto Rican casserole dish layered like Italian lasagne made with sweet plantains, layered with meat, vegetables, and bound together with beaten eggs and cheese.
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. Ground meat is usually seasoned with bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, basil, parsley, olives, capers, raisins and garlic. 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, boiled mashed yuca or potatoes. Because Puerto Rican pastelón closely resembles Italian lasagna it is said that this dish originated in New York City where Puerto Rican and Italian neighborhoods overlapped.
[1] https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pastelon_puerto_rican_plantain_lasagna/]https://tasty.co/recipe/pastelon [2]
