I’ve been dying to try this recipe since Christmas! My sister-in-law is from Dominican Republic and cooked this Pastelón de Plátanos Amarillos for Daniel’s parents a few days before we arrived. So while I only tried the left-overs, it was heavenly! Here our idea of Caribbean cooking is spicy Jamaican with peri peri and chicken and goat and pork – big punchy flavours – but the essence of cocina dominicana seems more delicate, balance and contra-balance, a mix of Spanish, African and indigenous dishes.
The pastelón basically a banana lasagna or even a beef sponge-cake, cook your beef with onion, peppers and tomatoes, mash your plantains and fit it together like a sweet and savoury lasagna that really surprises your taste buds. Being fairly easy to make, it’s perfect dinner-party food. On Friday the weather was beautiful so, channelling my inner Latina, we had some European friends round to enjoy Pimms and pâté on the balcony, followed by pastelón and Cuban dominoes.
Pastelón de Plátanos Amarillos
My recipe comes from Cocina Dominicana, ¡muchísimas gracias! And this post is written for Fiesta Friday.
Chilanga : Exported 
The mashed plantain topping sounds SO good 🙂
Yes it was the perfect mix of sweet banana and savoury beef!
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This is such an interesting dish – and not the usual Caribbean fare at all. Glad to have another use for plantains than just frying them – which are delicious too of course. Thanks for bringing it to the party.
Thank you, yes all the times in the past I’ve made something with plantain it’s been fried and matched with some spicy chillies. In this there is no chilli at all, just yum!
Plantain lasagna:D!! Sounds too good..
Glad to meet you:D, happy FF
It was my first Fiesta Friday and I look forward to more!
Yeah.. Its really fun being there.. !!
I hope you too love being there..
I’ve never heard of this dish before, thank you for showing me something new and for sharing with Fiesta Friday! 🙂
Thank you, I love anything that’s a little bit different, I’m quite into Polish food at the moment too, always wandering through the World Food at the supermarket but always drawn to the interesting jars of God-knows-what-but-let’s-try-it-anyway!
Haha, me too – we have a couple of those jars in the pantry waiting to be tried!