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 are wrapped green banana stuffed meat pastries, traditionally served during the Christmas season in Puerto Rico. Keep the banana and yautîa chunks in a large pot of cold water mixed with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Award-winning pastry chef Paola Velez breaks down how to make puff pastry at home for perfect pasteles (aka pastelitos or ...

María Nasr doesn’t make pasteles as often as she’d like. The traditional Puerto Rican tamales are labor-intensive. You have to shred the raw yuca and mix it with achiote to make an orange masa. Then ...