Does anyone have a recipe for...?!
Does anyone have a recipe for...?
a Brasilian snack called a pastel, or pasteis? I can handle the filling, but i don't know how to make the crust.
Answers:
IPastry Dough
INGREDIENTS:
250 grams or ? lb of white flour
1 tablespoon salt
? cup of vegetable oil
? oz liquor (cacha?a - Brazilian sugar can rum) or white rum
2 ? cups of lukewarm water
PREPARATION:
Sift flour into bowl. Mix in salt. Mix in oil to dissolve the lumps. Add cachaca or rum. At last, add warm water, little by little, until the flour absorbs the water and achieves a homogeneous and smooth dough texture
ASSEMBLY:
Roll the dough out with rolling pin or pasta cylinder machine, to 4 inches wide. Place one teaspoon of the filling, one inch apart, on the centre of the stretched dough. Use a wet pastry brush around the edges of the dough to help seal the edges together. Fold over the dough (bottom to top) to seal in ingredients and cut in half moon shape with a cookie cutter. Fry in hot oil until golden colour.