Easy pastelillos
Easy pastelillos

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy pastelillos. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy pastelillos is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Easy pastelillos is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

The unique flavor of Puerto Rican seasonings, green olives, and lean beef combine in a deep-fried pastry for a deliciously spicy turnover. Can be served small as appetizers or meal size. "This is a fun recipe," Jeff said, pulling his recipe riddled with handwritten notes and modifications to the forefront of his desk. It was his first time working with this recipe and he reaffirmed at least three times that he really liked how easy the dough was to make. A standard food in any Puerto Rican household, Pastelillos are super easy to make and seriously delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make Easy pastelillos:
  1. Prepare 2 1/2 lb ground beef
  2. Take 1 medium chopped onion
  3. Take 1 large diced potato
  4. Take 1 envelope sazon (Spanish seasoning)
  5. Take 1 1/2 tbsp adobo (Spanish season salt)
  6. Take 3 tbsp heaping frozen sofrito (Spanish fresh seasonings)
  7. Get 8 each green olives with pimento & a little dash of juice
  8. Prepare 20 each frozen pastelillos/empenada discs, thawed to slightly cool
  9. Make ready 1 packages shredded cheddar or mix cheese
  10. Make ready 3 cup vegetable oil

Every bite of these beef empanadillas is bursting with flavor. 🥟 #BestBeefRecipes. Transfer pastelillos to a cookie sheet. Do you want more AWESOME Puerto Rican recipes? Check out my cookbook, The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook now on sale HERE.

Instructions 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.

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