At this point, you can store the masa and pork filling in the fridge for up to 24 hours and wrap the pasteles the following day. Before wrapping the pasteles, cut the sheets of parchment paper and ...

One holiday dish you can expect to find in most Boricua and Dominican households are pasteles.Traditionally made with grated root vegetables to create the plantain base called masa and filled with ...

Pasteles come in several varieties, including pastel de arroz, pastel de yuca, and pastel de plátano. But, typically, the Christmas pastel consists of some combination of mashed viandas (root ...

How the beloved, labor-intensive dish — folded with malanga, yuca, plantains, and pork — became an essential part of Puerto Rican cuisine, especially on El Día de Los Santos Reyes.

Corn masa, which gives tamales their distinctive sweetness and mealy texture, is not used in pasteles. The second half of the process, their assembly and cooking, is different as well.