As a child growing up in a big Puerto Rican family, pasteles were synonymous with the holidays. My maternal grandmother made hers with magic, and family, friends, and neighbors looked forward to ...

Dining in Puerto Rico reflects the island's mixture of Caribbean ... meat or vegetables atop mashed plantains; pasteles are made of mashed banana (or yucca) and stuffed with pork, chicken or ...

But in Puerto Rico, this week, while no less festive, is the season for pork pasteles. And if you live in NWI, you don’t have to travel a thousand miles south to find them (although escaping to ...

La Casa de Iris’s Puerto Rican tamales, called pasteles, are made from a blend of yucca, plantain, pumpkin, and sazón. They’re then filled with chicken, bits of corn, bell pepper, potato ...

It is the only restaurant in the Bay Area regularly serving labor-intensive traditional Puerto Rican dishes like mofongo and pasteles. "It was time for me to start a new chapter," said Ortiz.