On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:21:51 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

> On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 5:16:46 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:39:10 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The fried rice included pastele sausage
> >
> > This is the first time I've heard of pastele sausage. Is it a brand
> > name or a type of sausage? Pastele seems to be a Puerto Rican stew
> > that is made with or without sausage. The post that indicated it
> > might be Portuguese ended up being a taste test of various brands of
> > linguiça (which is one of my favorite sausages).
> >
> > I also found recipes for pastele sausage. One of them indicated that
> > "banana" is actually plantain. Is that true?
> > http://www.ilovehawaiianfoodrecipes....ipes/pasteles/
> >
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> >
> > sf
>
> The pastele is a Puerto Rican tamale except the masa is replaced with grated green plantain and it's wrapped in a banana leaf instead of corn husks. The pastele sausage is made by a local sausage company and sorta copies the taste of a pastele in a sausage. It gets worse - we also have a pastele stew that is sorta supposed to taste like a pastele but I can't say if they make that in Puerto Rico.
>
> http://tastyislandhawaii.com/2007/07...rizo-sausages/

Thanks, I saw that before I posted. Your description is a lot better
than any I found, thanks.


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sf