Stuffed potato fritter, papa rellena

papa rellena
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This is a modified recipe from my well worn Puerto Rican Cookery cookbook. My mother gifted me this book when I moved out of the house. She wrote some of her own recipes on the blank pages. So it's never going away.



I followed the recipe, but I think I used more flour than the recipe calls for, and I made the fritters pretty huge. Potato boiling, with added pumpkin...



Potato and pumpkin mashed, mixed with flour and stuffed with savory meat filling.



Then fried, they where very tasty.

Pupusa redo

frying the pupusa
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I tried a quick redo trying to make a pasable pupusa. This time I again used Maseca
but I added water till the dough was pliant rather than the package instructions, and after that I added 2 tablespoons of pureed aji amarillo to the masa
I kept them small, and stuffed them with cooked potato and some leftover beef from a previous meal and fried them in a bit of oil.



They were much better, with a great smokey corn flavor and underlying heat from the aji puree. Going to keep trying and working on my technique.