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Pasteles (Spanish pronunciation:; singular pastel), also pastelles in the English-speaking Caribbean, are a traditional dish in several Latin American and Caribbean countries. In Puerto Rico , the Dominican Republic , Venezuela , Panama , Trinidad and Tobago , and the Caribbean coast of Colombia , the dish looks like a tamal .
A typical Cuban sandwich. A Cuban sandwich (sometimes called a mixto, especially in Cuba [6] [7]) is a popular lunch item that grew out of the once-open flow of cigar workers between Cuba and Florida (specifically Key West and the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa) in the late 19th century and has since spread to other Cuban American communities.
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.
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.
Salvadoran empanadas de platano with coffee. El Salvador is one of few countries where the empanada is made with plantain rather than a flour-based dough wrapping. [21] A popular sweet variation, empanadas de platano are torpedo-shaped dumplings of dough made from very ripe plantains, filled with vanilla custard, fried, then rolled in sugar. [22]
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.
In Spain, a typical dish of arroz a la cubana consists of a serving of white rice (which is sometimes shaped into small mounds using a glass), tomato sauce and a fried egg. While the most traditional recipe includes a fried plantain ( plátano) , [ 6 ] it is also common to find the recipe using sausages and bacon. [ 5 ]
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 .