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Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry–type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. [1] Traditional fillings include cream cheese quesitos, guava (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese, pineapple, and coconut. The sweet fillings are made with sweetened fruit pulps.
Whisk the dry ingredients together in a bowl (flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda, salt). Parade
Cream cheese is whipped with vanilla and sugar, guava paste or jam can be added and is a favorite in Latin America and Caribbean. Although quesitos may not have originated in Puerto Rico, they do add interesting flavors that are hard to find outside the island. The batter can contain eggs and sour cream similar to cheesecake.
The result is a crispy, brownish fried pie. The most common fillings are ground meat, mozzarella, catupiry, heart of palm, codfish, cream cheese, chicken and small shrimp. Pastéis with sweet fillings such as guava paste with Minas cheese, banana and chocolate also exist.
A Brazilian cheese pastel made in São Paulo. In Brazil, pastel (plural: pastéis) is a typical street-food Brazilian dish consisting of half-circle or rectangle-shaped thin-crust pies with assorted fillings, that can be savory or sweet, and fried in vegetable oil. The result is a crispy, brownish-fried pie.
Stew or pie made with chicken (sometimes pork), sausages, mushrooms, peas, carrots, potatoes, soy sauce, and various spices in a creamy sauce. Chiffon pie: United States: Sweet A pie with a filling made by folding meringue or whipped cream into a mixture resembling a fruit curd (most commonly lemon) in a crust of variable composition.
The base of the cheese “cake” — and the largest wheel in it — is comprised of Cave Aged Reserve Cornelia, a cow’s milk cheese with a “rich, buttery taste and roasted peanut notes.”
Parchment paper is only applied if the pastel is boiled or steamed. Once made, pasteles can either be cooked in boiling water, steamed, barbecued (smoked or slow grilling), or frozen for later use. Because they are so labor-intensive, families often make anywhere from 50 to 200 or more at a time, especially around the holiday season.