Easy pastelillos
Easy pastelillos

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, easy pastelillos. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy pastelillos is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Easy pastelillos is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy pastelillos using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy pastelillos:
  1. Take 2 1/2 lb ground beef
  2. Make ready 1 medium chopped onion
  3. Take 1 large diced potato
  4. Make ready 1 envelope sazon (Spanish seasoning)
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp adobo (Spanish season salt)
  6. Make ready 3 tbsp heaping frozen sofrito (Spanish fresh seasonings)
  7. Get 8 each green olives with pimento & a little dash of juice
  8. Take 20 each frozen pastelillos/empenada discs, thawed to slightly cool
  9. Take 1 packages shredded cheddar or mix cheese
  10. Take 3 cup vegetable oil

You can use different fillings too (pork, chicken, crab, or pie fillings etc). Pastelillos de Carne are Puerto Rican empanadas filled with ground beef, potatoes, cheese, and plenty of seasoning! Every bite of these beef empanadillas is bursting with flavor. Perfect for lunch, dinner, a snack, or even packing into a lunchbox!

Instructions to make Easy pastelillos:
  1. Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil & place potatoes in until done.
  2. Brown beef with adobo & adding onion 3/4 way through cook time.
  3. After beef mixture done, drain. Keep on meduum heat & add potatoes, olives/juice & rest of seasonings for 3 more minutes.
  4. Let meat mixture cool.
  5. When meat has mostly cooled, roll out a pastelillo disc & place about 1 tbsp of meat mixture & some shredded cheese in middle.
  6. Then fold over disc, wetting inner edge with warm water & pinch together fingers then a fork. Repeat for rest of discs.
  7. You can either wrap with wax paper & place them in a freezer bag to freeze for a later date or fry them immediately in 3 cups vegetable oil on each side until golden brown.

Every bite of these beef empanadillas is bursting with flavor. Perfect for lunch, dinner, a snack, or even packing into a lunchbox! Spoon grease from meat off top. Once boiling, simmer on low until meat absorbs all moisture and mixture is incorporated. Welcome to Jeff & Jo's Puerto Rican Kitchen, where we share easy-to-make, authentic Puerto Rican recipes.

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