Pasteles

[angelfire]

Does anyone know of a place that makes pasteles and can send to the states. I am in Minnesota and I have not had pasteles in years. I am so hungry for them. Please respond and let me know.

thank you
angelfire

[boricuaroman2000]

if you need the recipe for pasteles i can give it to you and goya now sell's frozen pasteles and i believe you can get them or the ingredients there the site is called b2bgrocer.com grocery. email me if you would like the recipe p.roman@puertorico.com. I've been there myself sweetie i grew up in new york i was used to pasteles during the holidays until i moved to virginia but now i make them myself. not bad for a single puerto rican male. ifoumd the recipe on jibaro .com and so i copyed it for you and here it is. tu amigo boricuaroman2000
Pasteles
Filling: two pounds boneless lean pork meat
six tablespoons sour orange juice.
In a pilón, crush and mix:
4 sweet chili peppers,w/o seeds
2 large cloves garlic, peeled
2 tbsp whole dried oregano
1 tbsp salt
4 fresh culantro leaves
Cut into cubes 1 lb lean cured ham
1 green pepper, seeded]
1 onion, peeled
1 can garbanzos, inc. liquid =1 cup water
24 green olives, stuffed with pimientos,
11/2 tbsp capers
6 tbsp Achiote
Wash and dry pork meat. Cut into very small cupes. Mix meat with sour orange juice.
Add the crushed chili peppers, garlic, oregano, culantro leaves and salt.
Add also ham, onion and green pepper.
In a sauacepan, bring to a boil everything including garbanzos, and water. Drain the liquid over the meat mixture . Remove skins from chickpeas and add chickpeas to the meat mixture.
Add olives and capers.
Add ingredients all together, mix well, cover and set in refrigerator until the masa is ready.

MASA
4lbs white yautia, peeled
4 lbs yellow yautia, peeled
15 green bananas , peeled and rinsed in salted water
2 cups lukewarm milk
1 1/4 cups(10 oz) Achiote
2 1/2 tbsp salt
Wash, drain, grate the yautias and bananas. Crush gradually in a pilón the yautias and bananas. Mix in a bowl with lukewarm milk to make a smooth masa paste. Add the achiote and salt, mix well , cover and set aside.
Use twenty bundles of plantain leaves. They should be long and wide.
With a knife, remove the central ridge to give greater flexibility to the leaves. Divide leaves into pieces, about 12 inches square. Wash and clean leaves with a damp cloth
Place 3 tbsp of the masa on a leaf and spread it out thinly, Place 3tbsp of the filling in the center of the masa Fold the leaf one half over the other to make a top and bottom layer of plantain leaf and enclose the content s in it. Fold it once more. Fold the right and left ends of the leaf toward the center.
Tie the pasteles together in pairs, with a string, placing folded edges facing each other.
In Large pot, bring to a boil 5 qts of water with 3 1/2 tbsps salt. Add 12 pasteles and boil, covered, for one hour. Halfway, turn over pasteles. After the hour, remove pasteles from the water at once. Repeat for the rest of the pasteles.



[Edited by boricuaroman2000 on 18th March 2001 at 01:59]

[RicanMami58]

Hi angelfire

Go to http://www.antojitos.com I don't know if they still sell pasteles but at least they used to. Good Luck! I know of a Lady in ST.Paul that makes pasteles and sells them to a store near by. She only makes them for Christmas. If you want to I can let you know if she's still making them. I know you probably want to eat them now but Christmas it's around the corner :-)

[Boricua_Castillo]

Hola Angelfire.
I live in California which is the only place I can think of (besides New York and Miami) that has pasteles.
My family comes from Puerto Rico and Hawaii (which explains why I live in Cali) And most of the time (a mi casa y mi Abuelitos casa) We eat THE GOOD STUFF!! Since I'm away from home and in college I've only been able to eat what Grandma sends down! But it is great.
I feel very sorry for you that you have not has a pastele in years...Here is the secret....There is a place where I use to live in the Bay Area that sells pasteles. they're very good! My family knows the Lady that owns it (I think she's related to us or something. She also cooks the pasteles herself. The place is in:
Hayward, Ca. (near San Francisco)
Name: The Pastele Factory
They run about $2.00 a pastele and there are also meals available! If you need more info, please let me know!
Puerto Rico The Best,
Boricua_Castillo

[Boricua_Castillo]

Oh yeah, My sisters and I have made it a point to keep out family and cultural traditions...So we make a HUGE bach of Pasteles 3 times a year! )

[torr59]

Miami and New York as the only places to get Pasteles besides Cali? Wow. I think Boricua_Castillo is forgetting Philadelphia and Chicago. The person in Minnesota should contact the Puertorican rest. in south Chicago that makes Pasteles year round, and may even send some frozen to Minnesota. Minny is out of the way, but you don;t have to go all the way to Miami, NY or Puerto Rico for them. I'm eating some right now.....

[antojitos_com]

angelfire,

Productos La Aguadillana started processing online orders for pasteles. They pack them in special boxes and by what I've heard, they are arriving still frozen to all parts of the US mainland. Not sure if they are already sending them to Alaska & Hawaii.

Visit http://www.antojitos.com/LaAguadillana.htm and read more about it.

Hope this helps.