Brazilian Pastel Recipe (Empanadas) | How To Make Brazilian Pastel | Yum Lounge (English)

These Brazilian Pastel are the most famous street food, found in every farmer's market, across Brazil. These pocket-sized little snacks are so delicious that eating just one won't be enough.

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Brazilian pastel is a typical Brazilian fast-food dish, consisting of half-circle or rectangle-shaped thin-crust pies with assorted fillings, fried in vegetable oil. The pastel is classified in Brazilian cuisine as a Salgado. It is traditionally sold on the streets, in open-air marketplaces, or in fast-food shops known as pastelarias.

Pastel is a delicious dish all over Brazil that can be found on every street corner. It is a common food for the people from Latin America's largest country. This street food favorite comes in so many varieties. Pastel is often enjoyed with sugarcane juice, so if you ever happen to be in Brazil, you'll need to remember this phrase: "Pastel e Caldo de Cana."

In this cooking recipe video, Yum Lounge presents how to make a Brazilian pastel recipe. We showed all the parts very carefully and step by step so let's watch and learn Brazilian Pastel.

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Ingredients:

|For Dough|
All-purpose Flour - 350gm
Butter - 4 TBSP
Egg - 1
Vinegar - 1 TSP
Water - As required

|For Filling|
Minced Meat - 400gm
Chopped Garlic Cloves - 2
Chopped Tomato - 1 Medium Size
Chopped Onions - 1 Small Size
Green Chillies - 2-3
Cumin Powder - 1 TSP
Black Pepper - 1 TSP
Red Chilli - 1 TSP
Salt - According to taste.

|Method|
1) Take a bowl, put all-purpose flour, butter, egg, vinegar, and water as required. Now knead it with ur hands. Once done, cover it with cling wrap and set it aside for 30 minutes.
2) Let's make the fillings, Add 2 TBSP of oil in a pan, set your heat to medium,
3) Next, add Minced Meat, chopped garlic cloves, chopped tomato, chopped onion, and give it a stir.
4) Add spices, Green Chillies, cumin powder, Red Chilli, Black Pepper, and Salt according to your taste. Now keep stirring it slowly until your mince is properly cooked.
5) It's time to shape the pastel. Take the dough you made, flatten it out, cut a rectangle out of it, and put it aside. Repeat the process so we can have another piece. Put your minced meat in the center, put the 2nd rectangle on top of it. And close the sides with the help of a fork. Repeat the same process for each pastel.
6) Deep fry them at 350F until they are golden brown from each side. Once done, Put them on a cooling rack for a few minutes so you won't lose their crispiness.
7) Your amazing, pocket-size, delicious Brazilian Pastel is ready to be served.

Enjoy!

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[YumLounge]

These Brazilian Pastel are perfect as a light-snack, though it doesn't mean you cannot have more than one. ;)

[sabitagustinadsouzadsouza]

It's one of my favourite when I was in Japan I have brazilian friends in Japan and I had in they house and restaurant. thank you very much for your wonderful recipes that also in English 🙏🙇‍♀️

[ankhseojhal]

You brought new delicious recipe for us...thanx Yum Lounge😛😝

[lakdahulara]

Perfect for winter season, especially with xmas coming! 😇

[ZoyeDiaz]

Just today I was looking for Brazilian pastels video and you posted it!😁 Going to try it out tomorrow.

[gsandy]

Thanks so much for the recipe, & great explanation. Looks very delicious. Hope to do it soon!

[MariaShahzad]

Super easy will try it soon. Thanks for sharing

[LuisKolodin]

Brazilian pastel are very similar to fried empanadas, but I guess it's totally wrong to say it this way because they both had quite different origins: pastel was invented by Japanese immigrants. They were trying to make gyoza or something like that with with local ingredients (pastel dough has cachaça). This is not the story of south american empanadas

[saniaimran]

Always you rocked 🎉🎉🎉 lets cook with sania

[obamamama]

It's like Pakistani snack.... spicy, crispy and of course yum yum yummy

[l.c.]

Aqui no Brasil empanada é outra coisa (e é uma receita argentina).

[sanduicheiche]

Here in brazil, we used cachaça in ingredients

[drluizpires]

Pastel are not empanadas...
pastels are fried dumplings

[zon]

in Indonesia there is also the same food as this, only the filling is different if in Indonesia the filling is potato, stir-fried carrots and boiled eggs, and uniquely the name is the same, namely pastel

[QueenJenniferTheGreat]

Instead of frying you can actually bake them in the oven if you want.

[Breathing_Ghost]

Is that hard to separate things. That's not empanadas, empanadas are Argentinian, also we don't speak Spanish.

[drluizpires]

And no brazilian would add chilli... thats probably a mexican recipe 😂

[vini-yp]

Actually, the dough layer is way too much thick. It could be thinner. And rerolling the dough every time is a waste of time, you could have spread once and then cut each piece of dough.

[Felix-Felix]

I understand the similarity but it's weird for us brazilians for you to call it "Empanadas".
In portuguese, "Empanado"/"Empanada" Is what you guys call Breaded beef / chicken.

In SPANISH SPEAKING countries, then yes, Empanada is quite like what Pastel is.
Oh and the plural is "Pastéis".

[spicyredhotchillies]

It's a parallel of Pakistani samosa