Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, puerto rican lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Puerto Rican lasagna is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Puerto Rican lasagna is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook puerto rican lasagna using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican lasagna:
- Take lasagna pan
- Prepare sweet plantain cut lengthwise
- Take ground meat
- Make ready diced onion
- Get diced peppers
- Get diced garlic
- Get salt and pepper to taste
- Take mozzarella cheese
- Make ready French cut green beans
- Make ready tomato sauce
- Prepare oil
- Take oil
- Make ready egg wash
The plantains are the pasta, the picadillo is the meat sauce, and the cheese is, well, it's the cheese. 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. Puerto Rican Plantain Lasagna - Piñón Puerto Rican Pinon (Piñón), a traditional layered casserole, features a complex flavor profile with seasoned ground beef, sweet plantains, and cheese as the foundation.
Steps to make Puerto Rican lasagna:
- preheat oven to 350°
- saute onions, peppers and garlic until onions just a little translucent
- add ground meat and brown try to skim of extra oil from meat
- to ground meat mixture add your tomato sauce
- in another skillet heat 1/2 cup of oil this is to fry the sweet plantain until golden brown
- make sure to put fried plantain on paper towel to get rid of extra oil
- in lasagna pan layer plantain, meat, green beans and mozzarella cheese. continue as you would a lasagna.
- last layer should be plantain, brush on egg wash and put in oven till cheese melts. Enjoy
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. Trader Joe's Soy Chorizo is a Mexican version that has.
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