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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.
A version of pastelón prepared with sweet plantains, ground beef, tomato-based sauce and cheese. In Puerto Rico pastelón is considered a Puerto Rican variation of lasagne and inspired by such.
Pastel is the Spanish and Portuguese word for pastry, a sugary food, and is the name given to different typical dishes of various countries where those languages are spoken. In Mexico, pastel typically means cake , as with Pastel de tres leches .
Pastel de nata (Portuguese: [pɐʃˈtɛl dɨ ˈnatɐ]; pl.: pastéis de nata) is a Portuguese egg custard tart pastry, optionally dusted with cinnamon. [1] Outside Portugal , they are particularly popular in other parts of Western Europe , Asia and former Portuguese colonies , such as Brazil , Mozambique , Macau , Goa and East Timor .
Rellenitos de plátano utilizes two of the most prevalent foods in the Latin American culture, black beans, known as frijoles negros in Spanish, and ripe plantains or plátanos. Rellenito comes from the verb rellenar which means to stuff or fill. [3] The suffix ito in Spanish is known as a diminutive.
Fufu de platano is a traditional and very popular lunch dish in Cuba, and essentially akin to the Puerto Rican mofongo. It is a fufu made by boiling the plantains in water and mashing with a fork. The fufu is then mixed with chicken stock and sofrito , a sauce made from lard, garlic, onions, pepper, tomato sauce, a touch of vinegar and cumin.
Aborrajados de plátano maduro (also called Aborrajados colombianos) is a dish of deep fried plantains stuffed with cheese in Colombian cuisine. Abborrajado (called albardilla in Castilian Spanish ) refers to an egg and flour batter used to fry certain foods in a manner similar to fritters .
Cuban bread is a white bread formed into long, baguette-like loaves.Though similar to French bread and Italian bread, it is slightly different in its preparation and ingredients, which include a small amount of fat in the form of lard or vegetable shortening.