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Pasteles—Puerto Rican Christmas in a Cup | La Cocinita

Puerto Rican pasteles are delicious to eat and a pain in the butt to make. It often takes several people, several hours, and a decent amount of alcohol to make them the traditional way. Back home, with all my family around, we’d form a pasteles assembly line and make a whole party out of it. A couple people work on the filling, and everyone else mans a cheese grater—shredding green bananas, yautia, and pumpkin for the masa. To me, Christmas tastes like pasteles. So if I’m not with my family in Puerto Rico for the holidays and I have to choose between breaking from the traditional recipe, doing hours of prep by myself, or not eating pasteles at all—you bet your butt I’m breaking out the blender. And if that wasn’t non-traditional enough for ya, your girl also douses them in ketchup. You mad? This is the exact recipe my family has always used, just without all the manpower. I use a food processor to break down the veggies for the masa, and I assemble the pasteles in silicone cups instead of folding each one in a banana leaf and tying it with twine. The result is a batch of delicious pasteles that taste just like they always do—like Christmas. INGREDIENTS FILLING: 2 lb pork 2 tbsp of sofrito 1 garlic clove, minced 1 tbsp adobo 1/2 cup tomato sauce 1 tbsp sazón 2 tsp chicken bouillon 2 cups of water Salt and pepper to taste MASA: 8 very green bananas 3 yautia (taro) 1 cup pumpkin 1 tbsp sazón 1 tbsp adobo 1 tbsp achiote oil Salt to taste OPTIONAL 1 banana leaf SHOP TOOLS: https://amzn.to/48lN5yV FOLLOW ME: Instagram:   / caroginorio_pr   TikTok:   / caroginorio_pr   CO-CREATED BY: Carolina Ginorio & Grant Dougharty