Salteña
Baked pastry filled with juicy stew
Think of it as: Like a soup dumpling dressed up as an empanada
Bite carefully. This pastry is mostly soup.
What does it taste like?
Sweet, buttery crust with a savory, saucy meat filling.
SweetSpicySourSaltyFunkSmellTextureFlaky, then a gush of juice
What is it?
A slightly sweet pastry wrapped around a juicy stew and baked. There's so much liquid inside that eating one without spilling is tricky.Source: Wikipedia
How locals eat it
A mid-morning snack: hold it upright and bite off the top, sipping the juice as you go.
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🇧🇴Bolivia
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Ingredients
- Flour 500 g
- Butter 100 g
- Sugar 3 tbsp
- Egg 1
- Chicken or beef 300 g
- Potato 1
- Green peas 50 g
- Gelatin 10 g
How to make it (one way)
- Make a stew with meat, potato, peas and spices
- Add the gelatin and chill overnight in the fridge until set
- Make the sweet dough and roll it into circles
- Wrap the set filling and seal with a pleated ridge on top
- Bake in a hot oven until golden
⚠️ Fresh from the oven, the inside is very hot.