Elisa's Potato Meat Pie (Pastelon de Papa)
Elisa's Potato Meat Pie (Pastelon de Papa)

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, elisa's potato meat pie (pastelon de papa). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for Elisa's Potato Meat Pie (Pastelon de Papa). I don't know the name in English, so I just called Potato Meat Pie. Recently I found out that there is a recipe called Shepherd Pie that is kind of similar.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have elisa's potato meat pie (pastelon de papa) using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Elisa's Potato Meat Pie (Pastelon de Papa):
  1. Take Potatoes
  2. Take potatoes
  3. Prepare Cream cheese
  4. Take Meat
  5. Take ground beef
  6. Prepare Smoked Cooked Ham, chopped
  7. Get of Bacon, cut the name small strips
  8. Get green pepper
  9. Make ready onion
  10. Make ready Sofrito (the recipe is in my profile)
  11. Make ready olive oil, extra virgin
  12. Take cilantro
  13. Prepare Salt & Pepper
  14. Take Topping
  15. Make ready egg
  16. Take shredded mozzarella cheese
  17. Get shredded cheddar cheese

This Mashed Potatoes and Beef Casserole is as easy as they come. The pastelon de papas is, I believe, the Latin version of a Shepherd's Pie. To be honest, I've never made Shepherd's Pie. But, from what I hear, it consists of the same ingredients, mashed potatoes and beef stew, layered simultaneously in the same way as this casserole.

Steps to make Elisa's Potato Meat Pie (Pastelon de Papa):
  1. Preheat the oven to 400.
  2. Chop the onion, pepper & cilantro
  3. On the stove, Put it on a pan and add the onions, peppers, smoked ham, bacon, cilantro, sofrito, olive oil, and fry for some seconds, until the onion is glossy.
  4. Add the beef, salt & pepper to the pan and cook.
  5. Peel the potatoes and cut them in small squares, add plenty salt to the water and boil.
  6. When the potatoes are done, mash them, add the cream cheese and add 2 tablespoons of the grease from the cooked meat and mix it very well. (You can add more or less grease from the meat.)
  7. In a greased pan, put one half of the potatoes on the bottom, put a level of meat on top and them add the rest of the potatoes.
  8. Beat the egg and pour it on top.
  9. Add the cheeses.
  10. Put it in the oven until golden.
  11. Wait it to cool a little, cut and serve!
  12. Enjoy!!

Pour meat mixture over the plantains and top with Cheddar cheese. Spread remaining mashed plantains over the cheese.. Or substitute with mashed potatoes and voilá! You saved Pastelon de Platano Maduro (Dominican-Style Yellow Plantain Pie) to your Favorites. Pastelón is a classic Puerto Rican dish made with layers of thinly-sliced sweet plantains, ground meat, and cheese!

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