Chile: Pastel de Choclo
Chile: Pastel de Choclo

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Chile: Pastel de Choclo is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Chile: Pastel de Choclo is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Pastel de choclo is a beef and corn casserole that is a very traditional and popular dish in Chile. Lots of different flavors, like beef and onions, raisins, olives, and roasted chicken, go into the body of the casserole, and the whole thing is topped off with a thick layer of creamed choclo corn. There are many interpretations of this Chilean chicken and corn casserole.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chile: pastel de choclo using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chile: Pastel de Choclo:
  1. Prepare 3 onions, roughly chopped
  2. Prepare 750 g beef mince
  3. Make ready 1 tsp cumin
  4. Make ready 2 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 4 hard-boiled eggs
  6. Prepare 50 g black olives
  7. Make ready 1 breast cooked chicken, shredded
  8. Get 25 g butter
  9. Take 1 tsp sugar
  10. Prepare 400 g can sweetcorn
  11. Get 250 ml milk
  12. Get 1 tsp dried tarragon
  13. Make ready Oil

It is especially popular in Chile, where it is often made with both beef and chicken. Sometimes sliced, hard-boiled eggs are added. The pastel is traditionally baked in a large oval earthenware dish, or paila, or in several smaller bowls for individual servings. Chile's favorite home-cooked meal and Peru's national dish, the soft and creamy pastel de choclo is a casserole-like pie that is also popular in Argentina and Bolivia.

Steps to make Chile: Pastel de Choclo:
  1. Heat the oil in a large pan and add the onions. Cook these onions on a medium heat for about 5 minutes till soft.
  2. Add the beef mince to the pan and turn up the heat. Add the cumin and one tsp salt and cook till the mince has browned. Turn off the heat and leave aside.
  3. While the mince is cooking, blend the sweet corn and 1/4 of the milk in a food processor until it looks nice and creamy.
  4. Melt the butter in a pan over a medium heat. Add the creamed corn, the rest of the milk and sugar and salt and stir constantly for about 5-10 mins when the mixture has thickened.
  5. Once the corn has thickened, add the tarragon and mix together.
  6. Preheat the oven to 190C
  7. Layer in a baking dish the mince, olives, eggs and chicken
  8. Spoon over the corn mixture and spread it over so the other layers are covered.
  9. Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes. Until the topping is nice and brown.
  10. Enjoy!

It consists of ground beef, black olives, onions, hard-boiled eggs, and corn flour dough called choclo Chilean Pastel de Choclo is an iconic dish. If living in the countryside, the Pastel de Choclo is usually cooked in a clay dish inside a wood-burning oven, if residing in the city a standard oven and a baking pan is enough. The flavors of the meat and corn mingle delightfully in this casserole. Chile tiene una gastronomía muy rica, con platos como el Pastel de Choclo. Chile goza de tener una gastronomía muy variada que va cambiando de acuerdo a sus zonas.

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