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Pastelitos de Carne

Name: Pastelitos de Carne
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: El Salvador
Ingredients: 300g Precooked Corn Flour; 350ml Water; 1 tsp Achiote paste; 250g Ground Beef; 1 Potato; 1/2 Carrot; 50g Green beans; 1/2 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Achiote-tinted corn dough wrapped around meat and vegetables and fried — Salvadoran fried pies.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pastelitos are a Salvadoran snack: corn dough tinted orange with achiote (annatto seed) is wrapped around a filling of fried beef, potato, carrot, and green beans and fried into half-moons. The crisp-fried pastry is eaten with curtido and tomato sauce, a favorite at festivals and stalls.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a festival stall in a Salvadoran town, orange half-moon pies go into a big pot of oil one after another and are plated with pickles on paper plates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Precooked Corn Flour 300g
Water 350ml
Achiote paste 1 tsp
Ground Beef 250g
Potato 1
Carrot 1/2
Green beans 50g
Onion 1/2
Tomato 1
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dice the potato, carrot, and green beans small and boil.
Fry the chopped onion, tomato, and ground beef, add the boiled vegetables, season with salt and pepper, and cool.
Knead the cornmeal with water with achiote paste dissolved in it and salt.
Divide the dough into 12, flatten into thin rounds on plastic wrap, add filling, fold into half-moons, and press the edges.
Fry in 170°C oil until crisp.

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