Puerto Rican lasagna
Puerto Rican lasagna

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, puerto rican lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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 recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have puerto rican lasagna using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Puerto Rican Pinon (Piñón), a traditional layered casserole, features a complex flavor profile with seasoned ground beef, sweet plantains, and cheese as the foundation. The tomato sauce, capers, and green olives make for a dish with potent flavors that hits all of the taste buds. See more ideas about Recipes, Cooking recipes, Food. THE TYPICAL name for this Puerto Rican dish is Pastelon; layered fried plantains with beef Bolognese and cheese.

Steps 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

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. 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.

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