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How to Make Puerto Rican Pasteles (paleo, AIP option)

yield: 4 total time: 105 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 30 bananas green, no yellow showing at all
  • 4 roots malanga, I used 2 white and 2 lilac, peeled
  • 1 1/2 pounds squash calabaza, substitute butternut or acorn
  • 2 cups bone broth chicken
  • 2 tablespoons salt unrefined
  • 1/2 onion
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 1 head garlic yes, a whole head
  • 3 bell peppers preferably red, orange, and/or yellow. If you can find aji dulce peppers, use a few of those, too
  • 1 bunch fresh oregano or about 1/2 to 1 Tb dried, to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt unrefined, to taste
  • 3 stalks celery
  • 3 carrots peeled
  • 1/2 cup lard or olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons annatto seeds whole, achiote
  • 6 tablespoons achiote aciete de, or plain lard or olive oil
  • 6 tablespoons sofrito
  • 2 pounds chicken or pork, cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 2 1/4 ounces capers drained
  • 4 leaves culantro, substitute 1/3 bunch of cilantro
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 teaspoon salt unrefined
  • 5 banana leaves packs, rinsed and cut into roughly 12"-16" squares; alternatives: "pasteles paper" from a Latin market, or plain parch…
  • 1 jar green olives read lables to ensure no weird additives or preservatives
  • 1 roll kitchen twine, cut into strings about 1 yard long, approximately the armspan of an adult
  • 3 banana leaves OR 1 banana leaf and one sheet pastele/parchment paper OR 1-2 sheets pastele/parchment paper
  • 1 tablespoon achiote aciete de, or plain olive oil or melted lard
  • 1/2 cup masa
  • 3 tablespoons meat filling
  • 3 green olives
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