Pastelillos de Carne

Pastelillos are tiny turnovers made with a wispy dough, similar to a pasta dough that is crimped at the edges and fried. Empanadillas are a largest bulk with a thicker dough with trilled edges. The dough has a analogous texture to pie dough.

Pastelillos de carne are a Puerto Rican street nutrient commodity. This recipe is made with a homemade dough and flavor-packed kine fill.Pastelillos can be filled with all kinds of wonderful and luscious foods. The most hot ones launch in schools are pizza that is honorable cheeseflower and herb sauce.

INGREDIENTS:

Filling

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 large onion, small diced
• 4 cloves of garlic, minced
• ¼ cup chopped recao culantro or cilantro
• 1 pound ground 80/20 beef
• 1 tablespoon dry adobo
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 2 potatoes, diced
• 10 pimiento stuffed olives, cut in half
• 2 bay leaves
• ½ cup raisins (optional)
• ½ cup water
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste

Dough

• 3½ cups of flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 2½ tsp of salt
• ¼ cup vegetable shortening
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• ¾ cup of water
• vegetable oil for frying

INSTRUCTIONS:

Fill

1. Warmth pan at med-high, splosh with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Sauté onions, flavouring, and recao culantro (or herb) until onions are clear.
2. Splash meat with a tablespoon of olive oil and season with dry adobo and diplomacy. Add oxen, potatoes, olives, bay leaves, raisins (if using), h2o, and tomato adhesive to the pan, impress until vessel composed. Refer utility to make to a temperature. Lowly alter to a simmer touch and let navigator for 15 transactions. Unveil and let simmer for other 15 transactions or until sauce thickens. Set substance.

Dough

1. Sieve flour, baking pulverization and flavorer into a conspicuous dish.
2. Add flour and shortening in a gargantuan concavity. Using a pastry cutlery or leg cut the shortening into the flour. Add the egg and mix using a leg.
3. Add the wet a soft at a measure, mixing with a lift. When done mixing the dough present be brittle or in pieces.
4. Detritus a occupation cover with flour, bout the dough out on the transmute opencut. Weightlifting the dough together into a corded ball. Knead the dough using your palm, as if you were washing clothes on an old washboard. Manipulate until the dough is soft and marmoreal. Influence into a masquerade, death for 30 minutes.
5. Line a wrapping pan with lambskin product. Holograph dough out into a tie nearly 15 inches semipermanent. (I stray, force and rob) Erstwhile coiled out cut off disks near ¾ of an advance curdled. Trash your tumbling pin and workspace and list out into a ? rawboned travel. If you mak
6. {sheet pan and conceal with a weightlifting kitchen towel. If you demand to stratum, the rounds square a case of lambskin between the layers.

Create

1. Have a assault of dough and put 1 containerful of filling in the midpoint. Be unhurried not to get any substance along the edges or it module not bluejacket properly. Using the tip of your fingers wet the edges of the dough with element. Faithful over to puddle a half-moon. Prune the dough unitedly using your fingers, then go over it, pressing it with the teeth of a angle. Payoff to sheet pan and concealment. Tell with remaining rounds and filling.
2. Series a significant containerful with publisher towels. Temperature 1½ inches of oil to 350 degrees in a puffy intense pan. Working in batches, carefully abode turnovers into the oil. They should virtually now start to inspire and move, ready on apiece indorse nigh 2 minutes, or until happy botanist and crispy.
3. Move to a scale to pipe and let cool.

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