Puerto Rican lasagna
Puerto Rican lasagna

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Pastelón is a classic Puerto Rican dish made with layers of thinly-sliced plantains, ground beef, and cheese! Think of it as a Puerto Rican version of lasagna. It's the perfect casserole to make for a potluck or family gathering. Photography Credit: Marta Diaz Pastelon, the Puerto Rican version of lasagna, brings exciting new flavor combinations to the traditional version, with the addition of plantains and Adobo seasonings.

Puerto Rican lasagna is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Puerto Rican lasagna is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have puerto rican lasagna using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican lasagna:
  1. Prepare 1 lasagna pan
  2. Prepare 5 large sweet plantain cut lengthwise
  3. Prepare 1 lb ground meat
  4. Take 1 1/2 cup diced onion
  5. Take 1 1/2 cup diced peppers
  6. Make ready 2 clove diced garlic
  7. Make ready 1 salt and pepper to taste
  8. Make ready 2 cup mozzarella cheese
  9. Prepare 1 can French cut green beans
  10. Make ready 1 1/4 cup tomato sauce
  11. Get 1 1/2 cup oil
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp oil
  13. Prepare 1 egg wash

This is a twist on a classic dish, with some typical Puerto Rican flavors and a fabulously delicious homemade tomato-based sauce. The time it takes to prepare is well worth the effort! Think of pastelón as a Puerto Rican lasagna. The plantains are the pasta, the picadillo is the meat sauce, and the cheese is, well, it's the cheese.

Steps to make Puerto Rican lasagna:
  1. preheat oven to 350°
  2. saute onions, peppers and garlic until onions just a little translucent
  3. add ground meat and brown try to skim of extra oil from meat
  4. to ground meat mixture add your tomato sauce
  5. in another skillet heat 1/2 cup of oil this is to fry the sweet plantain until golden brown
  6. make sure to put fried plantain on paper towel to get rid of extra oil
  7. in lasagna pan layer plantain, meat, green beans and mozzarella cheese. continue as you would a lasagna.
  8. last layer should be plantain, brush on egg wash and put in oven till cheese melts. Enjoy

Think of pastelón as a Puerto Rican lasagna. The plantains are the pasta, the picadillo is the meat sauce, and the cheese is, well, it's the cheese. The difference between this "pasta base" and the lasagna one, is that this is much easier to prepare. I made this pastelón dozens of times before I was happy with it. Growing up Puerto Rican lasagna was something I recall eating only a handful of times.

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