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Bon bini! Would you like to try a real Aruban recipe? Then this is your chance! These stuffed dough patties are called pastechi. The fillings still vary, often containing minced meat, tuna or cheese and using lots of spices and other flavorings.

Recipe

Aruban pastechi

Not only incredibly delicious but also a lot of fun to make! Try something different and make this delicious Caribbean snack!

Course	Side dish/snack
Kitchen	Antillean
Servings	30 pieces

Preparation time

Preparation time	20 min
Total	20 min

Equipment

Mixer
bowl
Tea towel
Colander
Rolling pin
Frying pan or wok

Ingredients

1500 g flour
290 g butter
4 tbsp sugar
2 tsp. sugar
690 ml cold water
1 liter of sunflower oil
750 g minced beef
2 tbsp oil
1 onion
1 bell bell pepper
1 tsp. mango chutney
Pepper
Curry powder
Cumin powder
Maggi
1 tsp. piccalilli
2 tbsp. soy sauce asin
15 green olives and allspice
1/2 cup raisins
2 tsp. tomato paste

Aruban pastechi

Mix the flour, butter, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Little by little, add the water and make a smooth dough with the mixer with dough hooks (mixing for about 5 minutes). Dust your work surface with flour and knead the dough until it feels smooth. Divide the dough in two, cover with a damp tea towel and let it rest for 30 minutes.
In the meantime, make the filling: chop the onion and cut the bell pepper into very small pieces. Heat oil in the pan and fry the onion and bell pepper. Here are pepper, cumin powder and curry powder, stir well. Now add the minced meat. Then the Chutney, Maggi, Piccalilly, soy sauce, olives, raisins and tomato puree are added and keep stirring until the minced meat is freezing. Allow everything to drain and cool in a colander.
Cut the dough into 2 cm pieces and then roll them out into nice round slices with a diameter of approximately 12 cm. Fill each round with a large spoon filling and fold them. If you get the edge wet for a while, it sticks better. Press the edges well with a fork to close them well. Now the pasties are ready to bake.
Heat a large layer of oil in the wok and fry the pasties until golden brown. First the convex side, then the flat side.

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