Reposted from @lunchboxmafia 🇵🇷🎄PUERTO RICAN CHRISTMAS LUNCH My favorite thing about the holidays is cooking and enjoying family traditions with the people I love. Here is a very typical Puerto Rican🇵🇷 Christmas dinner. (Many holidays and special occasions call for this deliciousness right here👆🏽) We always make plenty to feed a crowd and enjoy leftovers😉 ~ Pasteles 🫔 (see below) Lechón asado 🐷 (roast pork) Arroz con gandules 🍚 🫘 (peas and rice) Ensalada de coditos (elbow macaroni salad) Pastel de Calabaza 🥧 (pumpkin pie) ~ About pasteles ⤵️ In Puerto Rico, pasteles are a cherished culinary recipe, especially around Christmas-time. The masa consists of typically grated green banana, green plantain, white yautía, potato, and tropical pumpkins known as calabazas. My mom and abuela also make them with yucca. It is seasoned with broth from the stewed meat mixture and annatto oil. The meat stew usually contains any combination of boston butt, ham, bacon, raisins, chickpeas, sliced pickled pimiento peppers, olives and capers, and is commonly seasoned with bay leaves, recaito, tomato sauce, adobo seco, and annatto oil and then wrapped in banana leaves. They’re boiled in salted water and served alongside peas and rice and roast pork just like in my lunch! Have you tried them? Buen provecho✌🏽😘xoXo, Jenny ~ #lunchboxmafia #lunch #lunchbox #omiebox #omiego #yumbox #lunchideas #holidayfood #holidaycelebration #comidanavideña #lechonasado #pastelespuertorriqueños #arrozcongandules #🇵🇷 #comiendo #puertoricanfood #boriliciouss #querico #buenprovecho #lonchera #navidadenpuertorico #prflagsup #puertoricanflagsup https://www.instagram.com/p/ClgjR7jDPyo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
