Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pastelón de platano maduro (puerto rican lasagna). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Great recipe for Pastelón de Platano Maduro (Puerto Rican Lasagna). This is Puerto Rican lasagna using ripe plantains instead of the pasta. Pastelón de plátano maduro is a typical dish from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Pastelón de Platano Maduro (Puerto Rican Lasagna) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Pastelón de Platano Maduro (Puerto Rican Lasagna) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pastelón de platano maduro (puerto rican lasagna) using 6 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pastelón de Platano Maduro (Puerto Rican Lasagna):
- Get 3 Cups +/- Picadillo (I have a recipe for this)
- Make ready 4-5 Very Ripe Plantains
- Get 1/2 inch Oil in large skillet
- Prepare 2 Cups Mozzarella or cheese of your choice
- Make ready 3 Eggs Beaten
- Prepare 2 Tbsp Milk
Pastelon is the quintessential homemade dish, and it mixes the sweetness of fried ripe maduro with the cooked meat and sofrito, which is traditional in Puerto Rican kitchens. It's worth mentioning that there are several recipes, as is common with cherished dishes from our countries. We all swear that our grandmas or moms make the best variations of these recipes, so it's really the. Another Puerto Rican recipe for you - and this is one of my favorites!
Instructions to make Pastelón de Platano Maduro (Puerto Rican Lasagna):
- Preheat oil on med-high in skillet
- Select Plantains such as these
- Peel plantains and cut into thin slices lengthwise. Each Plantain should make 5-6 slices.
- Slicing the Plantains can be tricky. Here is a good method to use.
- Put Plantains in skillet a few at a time and cook on both sides until golden brown.
- When brown remove to plate with paper towels.
- When Plantains are fried, butter 13x13 casserole dish.
- Lay out Plantains on bottom leaving as little space as possible in-between.
- Put a layer as thick as you like of Picadillo on Plantains.
- Combine Milk with Beaten Eggs and add a thin layer on top of meat mixture.
- Put a layer of Cheese on top of Meat.
- Alternate layers as many as you wish. Commonly there are 3 layers of Plantains and 2 layers of Meat
- Finish top layer with Plantains, Egg and Cheese
- Bake in 350° oven for 30 minutes or until heated through. May want to broil momentarily to brown cheese.
- Allow to rest for a few minutes to make slicing easier.
- Enjoy!
It's called pastelón de platano maduro (sweet plantains), but I like to call it Puerto Rican Lasagna. It has layers of saucy meat and cheese, but instead of lasagna noodles we use sweet plantains. Plantains are a staple ingredient in Puerto Rican food as well as other Caribbean and tropical cuisines. Most people know of sweet plantains, but you can eat and cook with either ripe plantains (sweet) or green plantains. I've wanted to share a recipe for pastelón, a dish akin to lasagna that I love, for a while now.
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