Puerto Rican lasagna
Puerto Rican lasagna

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, puerto rican lasagna. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Puerto Rican lasagna is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Puerto Rican lasagna is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have puerto rican lasagna using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican lasagna:
  1. Make ready 1 lasagna pan
  2. Get 5 large sweet plantain cut lengthwise
  3. Get 1 lb ground meat
  4. Get 1 1/2 cup diced onion
  5. Get 1 1/2 cup diced peppers
  6. Get 2 clove diced garlic
  7. Get 1 salt and pepper to taste
  8. Prepare 2 cup mozzarella cheese
  9. Take 1 can French cut green beans
  10. Prepare 1 1/4 cup tomato sauce
  11. Take 1 1/2 cup oil
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp oil
  13. Make ready 1 egg wash

The tomato sauce, capers, and green olives make for a dish with potent flavors that hits all of the taste buds. THE TYPICAL name for this Puerto Rican dish is Pastelon; layered fried plantains with beef Bolognese and cheese. I have created a healthier vegetarian version by baking the plantains and using Trader Joe's Soy Chorizo instead of beef Bolognese. Most Latin countries have their unique version of chorizo, which is a type of spicy sausage.

Instructions to make Puerto Rican lasagna:
  1. preheat oven to 350°
  2. saute onions, peppers and garlic until onions just a little translucent
  3. add ground meat and brown try to skim of extra oil from meat
  4. to ground meat mixture add your tomato sauce
  5. in another skillet heat 1/2 cup of oil this is to fry the sweet plantain until golden brown
  6. make sure to put fried plantain on paper towel to get rid of extra oil
  7. in lasagna pan layer plantain, meat, green beans and mozzarella cheese. continue as you would a lasagna.
  8. last layer should be plantain, brush on egg wash and put in oven till cheese melts. Enjoy

Trader Joe's Soy Chorizo is a Mexican version that has. Pastelón is a layered Puerto Rican casserole of plantains, cheese and picadillo, a tomato-based ground beef mixture seasoned with onions, peppers, herbs and spices. The dish is often referred to as. Whenever I am introducing friends to Puerto Rican cuisine pastelon is one of my favorite recipes to prepare. I like to describe it as a Puerto Rican lasagna.

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