Alcapurrias (Beef stuffed fritters)
Alcapurrias (Beef stuffed fritters)

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, alcapurrias (beef stuffed fritters). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Alcapurrias are famous Puerto Rican stuffed fritters most commonly served in road-side stands and in cafeterias that specialize in fried snacks, called cuchifritos. The dough of the alcapurria is made from a starchy vegetable, either mashed green plantains or grated yuca, and then stuffed with a savory mixture of ground meat or pork. The dough is formed into a cylinder shape, and then deep.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook alcapurrias (beef stuffed fritters) using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Alcapurrias (Beef stuffed fritters):
  1. Take for batter (The masa)
  2. Take banana (green)
  3. Prepare salt
  4. Prepare taro root (yautia)
  5. Take vinager
  6. Make ready sazon with achiote (annatto)
  7. Prepare lots of vegetable oil for deep frying. a few sheets of wax paper for molding
  8. Get the filling
  9. Take chopped meat (i prefer pork)
  10. Make ready sofrito
  11. Get can tomato sauce
  12. Make ready chopped meat ( i prefer pork) chopped up in small pieces
  13. Prepare salt & pepper
  14. Get sazon
  15. Prepare green olives
  16. Prepare garlic
  17. Make ready cooked chopped ham
  18. Prepare dried oregano
  19. Prepare capers
  20. Take vinegar

Traditionally, alcapurrias are shaped on a wilted wild grape leaf (uva playera), and slid from the leaf into the hot oil one by one. I provide a nontraditional method that eases the process for home cooks, although; if you would like to prepare them ahead of time, arrange them in. Say the word "alcapurrias," and most Puerto Ricans think "beach food." These scrumptious fritters are usually made with a batter of taro (yautía) and green bananas (guineos verdes), and are stuffed with either a meat (pino) filling or with crab, shrimp or lobster. Sold by vendors on the beach, they make a great snack for hungry stomachs after a long day in the sun.

Instructions to make Alcapurrias (Beef stuffed fritters):
  1. The Masa: - - Thoroughly wash the yautías then peel. - - Peel the green bananas and wash with salted water. - - Grate the bananas and yautías then add the salt, vinegar, oil and sazón. - - Mix well and set aside.
  2. The Filling: - - In a deep pot, fry your ground meat until all red is gone. - - Drain most of the grease and add the garlic, ham, oregano, vinegar salt, olives, capers, sazón, sofrito and tomato sauce. - - Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low and cover the pot. - - Cook covered for 15 minutes. - - Uncover and cook another 15 minutes, stirring ocassionally. - - On the palm of your hand (or if you are lucky enough to have plantain leaves), spread about 1 1/2 tablespoons of the mixture and make a shallow well. (You may also use wax paper) - - Spread 1 1/2 teaspoons of the filling mixture and cover the filling (meat) with the banana mixture all around. (At this time of the recipe, you can fry the alcapurria or store in the freezer for later use.) - - In a deep fryer or deep frying pan, heat lots of vegetable oil to cover the alcapurrias. - - Fry until slightly crispy. - - Drain the alcapurrias on a paper towel and let them cool off. - - RICAN WARNING: - - DO NOT TRY AND EAT THE ALCAPURRIA IMMEDIATELY. IT WILL BURN YOUR (B
  3. Tips Try some corned beef in your filling. - - They are yummy when stuffed with shrimp, lobster chicken or turkey.

Alcapurria is a Puertorican fritter, the masa is made of a mix of green bananas and yautia (taro root) and stuffed with meat and spices. There are also version where the masa is made with yucca (cassava root). They are sold in the roadside kiosks and cuchifritos of Puerto Rico. Enjoy this Alcapurrias recipe right at home! Alcapurrias, popular in Puerto Rico, are fried plantain or yuca, stuffed with meat.

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