Puerto Rican lasagna
Puerto Rican lasagna

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, puerto rican lasagna. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Puerto Rican lasagna is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook puerto rican lasagna using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

The dish is a nice mix between the sweet taste of the very ripe plantains and ground beef. Some regions use Picadillo instead of regular ground beef for the plate. Think of pastelón as a Puerto Rican lasagna. The plantains are the pasta, the picadillo is the meat sauce, and the cheese is, well, it's the cheese.

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

The difference between this "pasta base" and the lasagna one, is that this is much easier to prepare. I made this pastelón dozens of times before I was happy with it. 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.

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