🇦🇷 Argentina recipe
Pastelitos
Pastelitos are Argentina's traditional patriotic pastries, delicate parcels of flaky puff pastry filled with dulce de membrillo (quince paste) or dulce de batata (sweet potato jam) and fried until crisp and golden. They are inseparable from the celebrations of May 25th and July 9th, when street vendors sell them by the dozen. Finished with a shimmering sugar syrup glaze, they shatter with the first bite into layers of crispy pastry and sweet filling.
Prep30 mins
Cook20 mins
Serves4
Difficultymedium
Ingredients
- 2 sheets frozen puff pastry (about 500g total), thawed
- 300g dulce de membrillo (quince paste), cut into small rectangles
- 200g granulated sugar
- 150ml water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- Sunflower oil for deep frying (about 1 liter)
- Flour for dusting
- 1 cinnamon stick (optional, for the syrup)
Method
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 320
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 15 g
