My mother would add the olives in the meat, and add extra achiote in the meat mix, then use the juice of meat to put a layer on the parchment paper, that cuts extra work time

It wasn't until last year when I made pasteles that I used my Oster food processor for the very first time to make masa. I tried once with my regular blender, but the masa came out watery. Not good, ugh! Anyway, all the years before that, I had done it the old fashioned way by grating it by hand. Can you imagine? Yeah, it's old fashioned, but that's how I was taught and it was the basic reality of how masa was born. It's was very time consuming and tedious, but that's how you did it. (My mom and dad had a restaurant in Brooklyn, NY back in the day and I helped a lot in the kitchen making them.) Now that I know my food processor works BIG time, it cuts corners like you wouldn't believe. I wish my mom were still here so I can show her the "easier" way of making masa. I no longer wait for just the holidays to make pasteles, because the time consuming elements have been cut out and so I can make and eat them anytime I want. Besides, time waits for no one, so if it's something you enjoy, why wait for the holidays? Make them now and enjoy...TAA-DAA!!

I did an half and half. I followed your recipe for the pork, but substituted the wrap recipe with a corn meal dough. 🥰We’re a quad-racial family (black American/Trini and Puerto Rican/Dominican). The dish was delightful and tasty. My family enjoyed the infusion 👍🏾

My dad who just passed away, made pasteles every Christmas while I was growing up, he used to dice up potatoes and add to meat mixture along with Spanish olives. He used to wrap the pasteles in foil and they were delish! Love your video, I plan to make them this year. My first year!!! Thank you!

Freakin rican pasteles are off the chain, I did his recipe and my pasteles are off the hook, thanks my brother

You have some of the best and careful explanations of how to make our traditional dishes. This is the best instructional I have seen on how to make our Puerto Rican pasteles. Beautifully done!

Aloha!!! I absolutely love watching your videos. Thank you so much to you & your mom. Don't stop keep it going!!!! Mahalo

THE BEST COOKING CHANNEL I HAD SEEING SO FAR, I LOVE IT. ..VERY CLEAN ,NICE SMILE, VERY PATIENCE SIMPLE THE BEST 😘💕💕💕🌹

digo el sazon de nuestras Madres Puertorriquenas es SUPER SABROSO, me encanta es incomparable, ME ENCANTA

I’m Sicilian, love all Latin foods but I have to say pasteles are more work then home made ravioli or manicotti but your recipe looks soooo delicious I’m gonna make these. Wish you could open a restaurant in Chicago where I live, we’d be there every other day!!!😂😋😋😋💖🇵🇷💖🇮🇹💖💋

I would love to see your meals in the frozen food section. As a Puerto Rican I know your foods are delicious and it would be great to have them readily available to me.

My grandmother taught me to tie them back to back 2 at a time.

Born and raised in Puerto Rican family in Hawaii and never made gandule rice until now with your recipe. Turned out perfect. You are the best.

Im not Puerto Rican, but love the food and have learned much from this channel. I tend to put my own twist on the recipes, depending on what ingredients we have at home.

I am not Puerto Rican, but I love the food and have made it myself. Pastels are the best when made using real banana leafs not the paper to rap them. My Puerto Rican friends moms or grandmothers made then at Xmas and they would always give me some but I moved and I lost my supply so I had to make them myself. I still have some banana leafs in my freezer so I will try your recipe. I have been to PR 7 times starting in the 60s and the food was great in San Juan, but the last time I was there 2014 it was almost impossible to find Puerto Rican food. How sad is that! Thanks for keeping the food alive.

DAMN, I love your channel. I feel like I've watched your videos so much that visiting the restaurant would be like visiting family! In all seriousness, I tackled my first round of pasteles yesterday for the first time in my life, and I nearly cried I was so happy. I'm vegetarian, so finding the right recipe for filling was a challenge. That said, I found a recipe and came back to this video to enhance the other recipe. Plus, there's no beating your tutorials and techniques. Thank you so much for your generosity and for sharing your love of Puerto Rican food. Much amor y gratitud desde Joliet, IL, brother.

Thank you so much for this! Married into a Puerto Rican family so this was perfect! They loved it! It's so delicious!

Thank you! You always make it so easy to make and look so delicious. Mine turned out great. I have made these for years but was always looking to see them made. I am Native American from Montana married to a Puerto Rican and we have five children who love Puerto Rican food. I am a pretty good cook but always looking to perfect with that Puerto Rican flavor. My husband says I am a Puerto Rican at heart, I love his foods and cook it all the time.

I love your face expression when you taste the food. Love your videos. Muchos exitos boricua 🇵🇷

You make it look so easy, lol. I make my own pasteles every year too but I've never put my sofrito in to the masa. I'm going to try that trick this year. I also love that machine you use and I'm going to see if I can convince my husband to buy it for me for Christmas. My knuckles can't take anymore grating, lol. Thanks for posting all these wonderful videos.

Trow two thru the screen, that is making me crave them right now. The pastel looks delicious! The tutorial was beautifully done. Thank you for doing such a beautiful job of keeping Boricua cooking traditions alive. God bless.

I’m so gonna try this . I remember finding the old ladies in Miami that sale them from home . We would buy so many cause they’re so good !!! I hope this one is just as good . Thank you for teaching us .

I ❤️ your channel which celebrates our Boriqua 🇵🇷 heritage!! Your pasteles are savory reminders of holiday celebrations, but which should be enjoyed more often, since pasteles are truly a culinary delight! I hope to visit your restaurant in the near future since I’m in the mood for pasteles! 😉 Felicidades! ❤️😘

I so Love our culture, so beautiful, we cook with Love right!

Thank you so much for sharing your recipe and I can't wait to try it!!! 👍🏽

Thank you soooooo much Freakin’ Rican. I bought your recommended machine and am now making amazing Rican Pasteles. Love ya Bro’ you’re killing it. Please keep the boricua recipes together. I want to go eat at your restaurant. I’m going to look into that. Xoxo and God Bless you.

Thank you so much for sharing your video . I made pastels . love them .

Thank you so much for recommending the Machine. 😘😘 I'm sure going to purchase the Machine. TFS.

I love your videos! So Puerto Rican authentic. I have been afraid to do pasteles because it looks so complicated but you made it so simple, easy, and fun. Your beautiful smile and "and just like that" has inspired me to do pasteles. :-)

Wow!!! Que rico lucen, ademas de ,que buena explicacion, gracias , muy buen Cheff

Just love your channel and food, Born and raised in NYC but living in North Carolina for the past 7 years. I’m hoping I can order your pastelles in February

I'm so glad I watch this video I been trying to learn how to do pasteles for awhile and I watch other video and they add other stuff but you made it so easy and simple. 😀

omg! they look amazing. My mom made them for me when she was alive. miss her and het cooking. You definitely have that touch. Que Dios te bendiga. ☺

This recipe is the best Pastele recipe I have ever tasted. Thanks for sharing.

Your sofrito is fantastic. I ordered some so I can now make good PR food in northern California! Gracias.

I really need to try this recipe looks so good.thanks for sharing

My mouth is freaking watering!!! 🤤🤤🤤

my sister and i made pasteles for the first time today following your video!! they were awesome!!

That machine is a blessing bro

Love your channel! Thank you for the wonderful recipes. God bless you.

Your the only one I’ve seen so far that makes them almost as my Aunt. Haven’t had them in ages she had moved to Florida than back to PR than back to Florida she comes up by us at the end of July praying that we makes them since she will be here for about two weeks 😁. I’m gonna try to do them by myself with your recipe and surprise her. Thanks much for your recipe.

omg I know those pasteles have alot of flavor! looks delicious

finally I get to see how it's done! thank you 😃

Thank you so much for posting! I am going to try all your recipes. My husband and my boys are going to love your "Greedy meaty pasteles". My husband is like you he loves a big meat filled pastel. :) They look amazing!

Very good teacher. I've never eaten or made Puerto Rican food but I really like your channel & the care you take to instruct. Looks & sounds delicious!

I wish I was there too, so I can help you eat these pasteles. You’re making me hungry 😋

I used to help my aunt to make pasteles and I remember that we would saute the fatback and ham. Then we would add the Sofrito and tomato sauce. After about 10 minutes we would add the pernil. Then add the rest of your ingredients and let it cook. DELICIOUS!!!

Your videos crack me up, but they are so in depth. You make it look so easy, but finally I got to see how they are made instead of begging my Papi to buy them for me all the time. Thank you for this video. You have no idea how happy I am to know that I can (possibly) make these on my own. Gracias, gracias, gracias!!! :)

I want to dive right in, they look amazing! I just found your channel and I'm so happy with all your recipes and cooking tips.

My husband is Puerto Rican from Brooklyn. I am from the Midwest and before meeting him I had never even heard of a Puerto Rican ( no offense). My point? i was/am a clean slate for learning. His mom sends Pasteles in time for Thanksgiving and given her health these days she doesn't get to visit a lot ( we now live in Michigan and she is still in NY). So here I am learning this. It took me 27 years before even trying because most of his female cousins say it is complicated. Today I decided this man and our kids deserve more cultural food from his side too, so you just volenteered as my cookbook. i had to order the papers and the banana leaves and got lucky with the rest, but today i wrapped up 3 dozen and of course 6 of them never made it to the freezer between my husband and kids. granted the wrapping will take practice ( I had a few different sizes and some filling squeezed out the side a bit) but the tastes was as close as I think I am going to get to his mother's. Thank you for making it not as complicated as I was told.

Love your cooking show. You have such a cool Spirit 💜🤗💜

I make your recipes and they come out so good. My family loves it👍. Making the pasteles this weekend.

You are amazing !!! We love Pasteles !!!

They look delicious thanks for sharing.

It looks delicious I make my definitely than that in the mix of the Green bananas and yautia we also put in Spanish pumpkin and a can of carnation milk adobo and the juices of the meat broth and salt and we also wrap the paper with the plantain leaves and all the things you did we just wrap it way different than you just did it and everybody does it differently and always it comes out the same way at the long run thank you for sharing your way of making of making Pasteles enjoy your Sunday and GB 🙏🌹

This is a great teaching video! Love it! Thanks so much!

Wow that looks so delicious! You make it look so easy😁thank so much!👍🏼

You have to love to cook, to do all our boricua dishes, learning more each day

I just want to say thank you so much for you video on how to make pasteles de guineo. It was the first time I ever made pasteles. I cooked them for Christmas and I was so amazed and happy that they tasted so good and my family and I enjoyed them very much . Your recipe was the easiest out of so many videos that I watched and compared. Keep up the good work and thank you once again

I love your way of cooking. Your the bomb.

I Love The Pasteles And I Love Your Smile 😃 ❤️

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! because of this video I learned to make PR 🇵🇷 Pasteles. My family absolutely loves them and enjoy the flavor. Thank you for sharing your recipe !! Delicious !!!

O.M.GGGGG! Since Grandma passed mamy years ago my sisters and I would wait for my aunts to send them to us. Thank you soooo much for sharing how to create this wonderful dish! I cannot wait to have our Dad try them!! ;>

My mother would have loved that grating machine. As a child, I watched her make pasteles the old fashioned way, using the dreaded box grater method. It took forever. I made them once using the same method and then I swore that I would never make them again. It was too labor intensive. I love your video; you make pasteles like my mom, minus the box grater. lol

Looks Amazingly Delicious! Thank you for all your tips /sharing

Just placed my order for Pasteles from your store. I can't wait to receive my shipment. Looking forward to delicious Pasteles 👌

weeeeepa , que emocion me dio al ver este video , muy orgullosa de usted , buen trabajo y quisiera aprender a hacer piononos de amarillo(sweet plantain) y alcapurias , ohhhh y quisiera saber como salvar un sofrito que le puse mucho pimiento y pica demasiaó y no lo puedo usar , gracias y weeeeeepa !!!

Soooo hungry now!!!! Thanks for this! ❤️❤️❤️

Bro all the people in my life have passed away. Your menthod is the best I've seen. Thank you.

I always use your receipts, so good. Thank you God Bless you!!! Happy Holidays

I can’t wait to visit your restaurant!!! You’re so thorough!!!! I can smell it through my phone lol

In a much larger pot my mother and grandmothers would cook the tosino/fat back first. Remove/put aside then in the rendered oil from tosino cook the ham and remove/ put aside then add the sofrito, etc. then put ham/tosino back in then add/brown the pork and so on. That’s how I learned to do it and continue till today. It takes time and the end result is delicious. I’m sure for the video purpose, throwing everything in at once was easier 🤷🏽‍♀️

Yummmmy looks so good!! I cant wait to try them.

Love how u savorearte those pasteles making me hungry thank u for the video God bless

Great! So many different ways. Will try your recipe. Gracias ..dios te bendiga.

Thank you for giving perfect instruction step by step. i enjoy your videos. i will be making pasteles this weekend.

love love love it ..

Love your videos! New life goal is buying that machine and making my own pasteles.

Cocinas muy bueno Freakin Rican. LOve everything you make. Saludos desde Ponce. Living in MD. I love Mayaguez.Thanks for teaching us how to make the best PR food ever!!

I can't wait to make this. You make it look so easy:)

That smile before each scene ends lol Que Precioso Great video Thank you much

First time watching you..I cried!! Thank you so much😀😀😀

Muy. Rico. So. Yummy. Thanks for. Recipe

It’s interesting noting the subtle differences in how each house makes their pasteles. Buen provecho!

I'm about to make my first pastels with my wife by watching your video wish me luck. thanks. here in new jersey

I follow his instructions and it was the bomb.

second video I see of yours and I love it. I make pasteles and I add so many things to the masa.. yours are so simple but look delicious Imma make them like this tomorrow since I have to make them for my sister for Christmas. Thank you!

LOVE your video!! great job! I definitely want to try it! looks delicious!! thank you for taking the time to show us. this video has taught me so much I didn't know. :-)

I love the way you explain what you are doing....also you always make me hungry 😃

My husband and I are definitely going to try and make these for Xmas.... oh yeah my husband is PRican 🇵🇷. Thanks for sharing these look scrumptious

I love love the way you presented the video looks awesome :)

I can almost smell that from here! I want some so much!

Perfecto. Gracias!

Wow! Thanks! Love the music! :)

Gracias!! yummy!

Looks delicious.

Wow your presentation is so well done so happy for you get the time to share this wonderful presentation with us. God bless you.

Que rico my friend. They look delicious. My mouth is watery wanting so bad to have me some pasteles. Thank you so much for your time to show us. 💕💕💕

I make my pasteles exactly like you do. So good. Thank you for the video. Make more videos please. I love them. God bless

I can't wait to start making my homemade sofito