How to make Puerto Rican Pasteles! 

I made this for my family. My mom and step dad are from Puerto Rico. They were blown away and couldn't believe I made them. They said I've earned my boriqua card. I even made some vegan for my sister. Thank you so much for teaching me. I'm making them again this year and every year.

You have taught me so much. My wife doesn't cook, I would've starved if it wasn't for you. I appreciate you so much.

An African American, I was introduced to pasteles by my best friend's (and later comadre) mother. Both have passed since then, but my addiction to pasteles at holiday time remains. Thanks for the memories. I can smell them through the screen, LOL.

Boricua here from a 100% PR family and my mom has never been very helpful in teaching me to cook. We made pasteles last year (which were amazing) but they took us 8 hours to cook because she kept walking away from me 🙄 You've taught me so much already, Ida! Thank you for all of your recipes and helping me cook like a real boricua 🇵🇷

This is my third Christmas without my grandfather who always made us pasteles. I hope to continue the tradition with my family. Thanks to this video I feel ready!

Ok these pasteles came out phenomal but i had to make 2 batches of meat because my husband ate all of the pork stew before i could finish. Everything iv'e made from sweets and beyond has come out really authentic and delicious. I am very grateful for these videos. Thank You IDA

My MIL is Puerto Rican and she introduced me to so much authentic Puerto Rican cuisine. I remember the first time that I saw a pastele and I was like, “unh unh, I don’t think so.” But when I put this in my mouth a spectacular explosion occurred. I have been in love with these since the early 90’s when my daughter was born. There is nothing on the planet like these. I miss them and seeing this makes me want them even more. Thank you for sharing your recipe with us. I hope that the Island and the people are recovering since the hurricanes. Much love I have for the Puerto RIcan people many times over. Puerto Rico/Puerto Ricans will always have a special place in my heart forever!

Your right about each family member having a specific task. 25 years later my chore is still cutting the string. 😏

Thank you for this recipe. I am from NY but been living in London for 11 years. I miss Puerto Rican food and I made this today and it came out awesome!

as a beginner cook I learned Puerto Rican cooking from the guys that cooked where I worked. wonderful flavorful cuisine. great people very skilled cooks.

I teared at the end of your message.. I grew up learning and making pasteles with my mom.. and she past away .. you say pasteles reminds you of Christmas and it reminds me of my mom... I was touched with your message.. I think making pasteles is a intimate dish.. prepared with a individual true background meaning and most of all made with love.. thank you for making this video.

Thank you so, SO much for making Spanish and English versions!! As a Puerto Rican who grew up on the mainland and is not fully fluent in Spanish, it is so helpful to be able to follow along confidently!

Este video me hizo llorar tanto. Extraño a mi abuelita mucho y por eso los voy a hacer, en su honor. Gracias por la rezeta y tu gran esfuerzo y dedicación a tu canal.

You can feel your love and warm memories when you talk about the pastels and your family. God bless!

This is a priceless video for me. My mom would make this for us every Christmas , she’s passed away years ago, I always wanted to learn how to make it . You are a blessing, thanks for this video. I would love to see you do some more soon.

I love how she goes step by step in her videos. I actually prepared this dish following along with her and my arroz con gandules came out great. Buen provecho!

I died laughing when you said please don't to adding raisins. I hate raisins in food lol a woman after my own heart. Youre natural funny. This is the easiest video I've seen for pasteles

Thank you for proving that we don't have to skin our knuckles grinding the vianda with a grater or buy a fancy machine. Love it!

OMG! I remember helping my mother & grandmother making pasteles for Christmas in New York! So delicious! We would have pasteles con arroz y gandules. A meal fit for a king! Thank you for the beautiful memories! Orgullosa de ser Boricua! Para lo que sepa! Wepa! 🇵🇷💕🇵🇷💕🇵🇷

I JUST LOST MY DAD IN JULY OF THIS YEAR AND YOU JUST MADE ME FEEL LIKE FAMILY THIS IS SUCH A GREAT VIDEO I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I WILL DO MY BEST TO MAKE THEM THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT

I love how much love and effort you put into your food ❤️

Because of you, I learned how to make pasteles and my daughter and I make them together during the holidays!! Now, I don’t have to buy them anymore. Thank you so much! 🤗❤️

My Mom used to make Pasteles for Navidad and New Years around 300 hundred cause we were many 15 children same Father and the grandchildren. Beautiful times. Feliz Navidad y Prospero AÑO Nuevo.!!!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Thank you for your video. Brought back memories of my mother making and selling pastilles and coquito each Christmas to earn money to buy gifts. She always used the paper as my bother and sisters did not like pastilles wrap in a leave. It would ruin the pastilles by making it taste like the leaf. She also ground it by hand until she learned to use a blender. God Bless you.

I'm so happy I stumbled upon this video by chance,even though I've made pastels twice,30 yrs. ago with my friend tita,I've been afraid to make them on my own,it's overwhelming,you are such a good teacher,I can do this ,I can't wait,you made it look easy,thank you!

Your recipe is very close to my grandmother's, she made this every year. The best ever, thanks for sharing!!!

What a beautiful demonstration! Looks so fun to make.

Thank you so much for this recipe. I made it with my family and it was AMAZING! I did pour the juice from the pork in the Masa, I think it gave it a nice flavor! My boyfriend ate 5 with white rice and he said for my first time I did an amazing job and he was proud of me so THANK YOU AGAIN FOR SHARING!

I never learned how to make pasteles, because my mother used to always make it, but now that my mother passed about 6 years ago I haven't had any, but thank you, now I got the recipe.

My mom watched your video, too, and absolutely loved it! You brought happy tears to her eyes from the memories she had making these with her grandfather. Now she can finally share her experience and cook it with us! Thanks for the video!

The part when you tasted it and remembered childhood and your grandmother and the holidays...made me tear up ❤️. I know that feeling and grow up learning to make these with my grandmother who I dearly miss may she rip. Thank you for this video. I haven’t made them in years and am making for the family this Christmas so wanted to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything and haven’t. It’s life keeping ❤️

You're are a wonderful teacher. Thank you for sharing your heritage. I love that these are not made with corn like a traditional Mexican tamale would be. I've must make these. You're so right about the taste/smell making you think about family. Whenever I make my mom's root vegetable beef soup, I think about my childhood, coming home from school and smelling her soup cooking on the stove top. I hope the smells and foods I create in my kitchen will someday remind my kids of me. God bless.

no wonder its kinda expensive to buy from others, cooking bananas are expensive or hard to find! Didnt know bananas were used in the recipe. Im fillipino, but I love puerto rican foods!

Fantastic, I remember tying those with my abuelita. Thanks for the recipe!

I feel blessed today to find you!! I LOVE the way you make Puerto Rican pasteles!! They’re just perfect for my taste. 😋 I know there are several versions out there, but yours are exactly the way I grew up helping my mom making them. I made them myself when I lived in Germany, Japan, & Hawaii with whatever I could find whenever we had the cravings. I live in Orlando for 18 years & now I can buy all the ingredients I need to make my own. You’re the best explaining the process!! Thanks a million; you have inspired me to try them again the way my mom used to make them!!

I lived off of these during overnights in the hospital. This and flan. My friend’s mom made these. So delicious

Very professional and helpful with your cooking instructions. You make it so easy 😀😀😀Gracias

You remind me so much of my grandma this was a breath of fresh air ❤️

I am humbled by how much love & work it takes to make them. I never knew it- I just ate & ate. So much deep respect for the process. 😌

My aunt uses this recipe & I LOVE this version BEST of your pasteles recipes! It's delicious!

Thank you so much! You are a great teacher, I have watched this at least 6 times!

Thanks for this. We did the assembly line when I was a kid. It was great. I haven't done them in a while because of the prep and time it takes but I'm inspired. Maybe esta Navidad! ☺

These were spot on just like I remembered. Thank you for an authentic recipe.

Wow, I'm impressed by your method! Very simple, plain and to the point! I share your joy of being Puerto Rican!! Thanks for making this video!

Wow.. esto se ve delicioso! Delicious! Thanks

Hey sweets I really love this video It makes me proud if who I am.Thank you....

You are absolutely amazing🙏 I humbly appreciate this. I made these today and my family is so happy. Thank you🙏⚘

Delicacy!!! QUE Viva La Navidad y QUE Viva Puerto Rico! No hay NAVIDAD como esa👏💓🇱🇷

Muchas gracias! Christmas in my mouth, that is memorable and quotable!

Yes, you can put a little liquid from the meat to the masa and it gives it a little more flavor to the masa. I can eat easily like 12 in a day breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the last one to closed the day.

You're such a sweetheart! Im glad I found your channel yesterday.. watching this - wow brings back memories. You wrapped it all in a nutshell at the end when you recall how it FEELS when you taste the goodness. That's what COOKING is about.. bringing one to recall the wholesome of family / traditions... the smells... awwww, when you can bring that to life again and start the next generations to appreciate the blessings along with friends.. aww that is COOKING WITH LOVE. I recall my first time with my mother-in-law and abuelo... awww I was 16 years old.. (yes married young and to this still with the man who compliments my life and fathered my children - OLD SCHOOL HERE)... but wow.. was that a traditional moment to recall - that I still hold dear to me and plan on giving to my grands today! and YEEEESSS. PLEASE DONT ADD RAISINS.. (yuuuuck) - You are awesome.. I've noticed you dont have recent vids.. so sad, I do hope you're still cooking with love.

My grandmother made a few variations of pasteles; de masa, de yuca, de arroz, y de repollo. The cabbage ones were my favorite. Back then those were the only one I would eat and after she passed away, I didn’t eat them for years. Now I want to make a batch and this video was very helpful. Thanks Ida for all the great videos on how to make delicious Puerto Rican dishes.

This is so awesome, hello from Atlanta....Gracias.

Thanks for sharing! I love your videos❤️

It’s a family dish. It takes a family to make it too. Thank you so much for sharing.

I loved this video. The love you put into your food is so sweet

I love your channel I learned to cook form it

omg I think you read my mind I was going to request this video thanks so much happy holidays

I'm soooo glad I discovered you on Utube! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Truly the best.

I enjoy watching you cook! This brings back memories of my whole family making pasteles! We each had a job to do because there were no food processors back then!

Oooooh JESUS, I LOVE PASTELES. AY BENDITO! WEEEEEEPA!

Hi Ida, oh wow this is all new to me, I've never seen these being made before. How interesting I loved this, thanks for showing us how they' are made they look delicious

Love, love love pastels!! I will be making this very soon!! Good job explaining and making it look so easy.

My mouth is watering this is hands down one of my favorite dishes !!!! I love pasteles. My mom would make them every Christmas 🎄

Amazing video !! Liked!!

Oh my goodness, you literally made me cry! Talking about "la tradición", the tradition of preparing something passed down from generation to generation, and obviously the holidays and holidays past..... Brings back so many memories! If I could thumbs this video up 1000 times I would! I adore your videos, and your personality so much! FYI, you also cracked me up when you mentioned people putting raisins in their pasteles and you were like "PLEASE DON'T!" Hahahaha!!!😂 I never understood raisins in pasteles, but hey, whatever floats your boat, right?! Lol Your pasteles looked delicious! And just the right size too!! Never liked those ginormous pasteles and all you bite into is a big hunk of masa!😝😝 😂 AWESOME VIDEO! And your coquito video😍😍😍 loved it, and even shared the link with my dad since he's the coquito maker and distributor for the holidays! Told him to try the new flavor too!!! Thanks for your hard work on these videos that you make look so effortless! 😘⭕️❌

You made me miss my parents, it's been such a long time. Thanks for continuing the tradition. ✝💛💃

Thank you times a million! You’re instructions are easy to follow and just like my mother did.

I miss these foods so much from my childhood

LOL @ "FOCUS"....hahahaha......Looks Great ,thanks for sharing...and Very Happy Holidays to U and your family....

I met my grandmother twice in my life. She introduced me to this meal. I asked my mother to make them and she made them once. Today I'm trying for my first time to satisfy this craving, and I'm so grateful for this video as all have passed, and I really didn't have much to go on. Thank you.

Mom would put a piece of hot chili pepper. Aida, thank you so much. You make us Puerto Rican’s so proud. God bless you.

AmEn! That binness looks good! Woo!

💜 *Hi BEAUTIFUL* 💜 _You Are Geeat and Smart_ Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. I have never made pastel but LOVE when I have eaten them. They are delicious. My mouth is salivating as I am texting this message and watching you mix the annato on the white blend. Yummy. I love your voice and you are a great teacher and speaker. I haven't eaten pastels in years. I got here by a fluke. I wasn't even thinking or aware they had how to on RU-vid on this delicious food. I know the UNIVERSE wanted me to find this video. I can't wait to make them. Thank goodness you speak English. Spanglish. So I can understand. You are great. I will watch the other videos RECIPES that you share, I am excited to learn. Yummy. I am so appreciative more then you know. Have a FANTASTIC day and new WEEK W/FAMILY and FRIENDS. HUGS and KISSES November 18, 2019. MONDAY. 10AM. WHAT A BLESSING. 💜

Thank you so much. You have shown me so many childhood meals that i love and i can share my culture food with my kids.

Thank you for this. My mother-in-law used to make huge batches of pasteles and send to us each year. God rest her soul, she passed away a few years ago. I've often tried to remember how she made them so I could try--your video is very appreciated.

Soy mexicana , se me antoja mucho la receta, voy a buscar ingredientes aquí en el área de Temecula. La raíz no creo haberla visto en los mercados, pero buscando la encontraré. Bendiciones, Feliz Navidad.

“Some people put raisins in it... Please don’t” lol 😂 Sister, I’m with you in that one! Great video btw. I’m making pasteles today. Got a few pointers from you, so I thank you. Btw my least favorite part of making pasteles is peeling the green bananas. It’s too sappy and sticky lol. I wish there was a much easier way to clean it. Wish me luck. Love from Hawaii ❤️🤙🏽

I just tried your recipe. It made the best pasteles I have ever taste. Thank you sooooo much.

I love her and this channel. So helpful and in helping me perfect my recipes.

“I love playing with it” “okay focus” 😂😂😭

Great video!!!. I'm hungry!!!

I'm making these for Thanksgiving and Christmas and new years...my mom made these every year. And so did my aunt vicky..one year we have shrimp pastles..and they came out phenomenal..Thank you stay safe and God bless you and your family .🙏🏽😉❤

Hawaii has a huge Puerto Rican community and we learned to eat pasteles anytime during the year, while our pasteles are a little different, they use a black olives and sometimes a light hint of chinese chili peppers which always gave it a zip but super delicious. If you every go to Hawaii, try it so delicious, love the culture!

You the BEST I freeze mine tho it taste a million times better lol I'm so hungry now

It's about time 😁 Thanks for the video 👍

My aunt makes them in foil, we unwrap, then eat. No garbonzo, No pimento, just meat filling. I haven't had them in years!!! Crave it! She also made a delicious rice, and a baked Rice Pudding!!! She is a GREAT COOK!!!!!

I love how you explain a step-by-step it helps to really understand how to make it right

I love watching your videos. I can hear the excitement in your voice. By the way you didn't put some pimiento rojo in your first pastel so don't give me that one to eat. lol. Thank you for your great videos

Yummy!!😍.. Pastellas!!! ..

Thank you sooooo much!!!! I attended culinary college in Philadelphia. and my love is Puerto Rican, I’m surprising her sooo much with recipes and enjoying great cuisine!!!! Keep bringing it on!

Love love love!!! Bringing me back.

Thank you for sharing these videos. I was wondering if you could please do some crock pot recipes?

pa'que tu lo sepasss. 😍

Thanks for making this video and your other ones!! My great grandma passed away a few years ago and it was tradition to make it with the family. She was the glue to our family and after she passed, they stopped doing the tradition. I ask my mom for one every year but she never remembers to save me one 😑. So now I must take matters into my own hands and teach my family how to make them. Thank you!

i love following. its nice to taste the culture. its comforting like ur an aunt teaching me how. i appreciate all u do! i look foreward to your videos!

YUMMMMMMMMMYY!!!!!!!

Yes sin pasteles no hay Navidad y con Ketchup super sabroso!! Hehe

Hi! Love your videos. I am getting married to a Puertorican guy and my in-laws want me to learn how to cook their traditional dishes (I am from the DR). I will give all your recipes a try. You are so cheerful that makes me want to turn everything into a tradition. Thanks!

Don’t ever leave we need you mama🤗❤️ you are an amazing chef!