Easy pastelillos
Easy pastelillos

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Easy pastelillos is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Easy pastelillos is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy pastelillos using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy pastelillos:
  1. Get 2 1/2 lb ground beef
  2. Take 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. Take 3 tbsp heaping frozen sofrito (Spanish fresh seasonings)
  7. Make ready 8 each green olives with pimento & a little dash of juice
  8. Take 20 each frozen pastelillos/empenada discs, thawed to slightly cool
  9. Make ready 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!

Steps 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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