I'm sure you know this delicious pastel recipe in Tho n 😏, right? It is a very popular African aperitif, so there are a lot of different online recipes, I know! But none of these recipes is worth this ... So, prepare to discover the best tuna pastel recipe that you can find on the net. You will find in this post: the recipe for pastel dough , as well as the tuna stuffing recipe with fresh fish (no cans), and as a bonus the recipe for a small accompaniment tomato sauce!

What are tuna pastel?

So, if you still don't know what it is, I explain to you quickly. Pastels or pili are savory donuts stuffed either with fish, meat or chicken . When they are stuffed with meat, they are generally called fatayas. »»

Origin tuna pastel

Tuna pastels are very popular in Senegal, and everywhere in West Africa elsewhere. At home in Cameroon, they are called pili-pili. This recipe is perfect as a small starter dish for a holiday menu for Christmas, or for Easter as well.

Originally, Senegalese pastels are made with white flesh fish that can be boiled with condiments.

Tuna pastel recipe

The tuna pastel recipe is easy to make, but it requires a lot of time , because you have to do the dough first and let it swell for a while. Then, you have to prepare a small stuffing with either fish or meat, and finally a small tomato sauce to accompany everything. Finally, you have to assemble before switching to frying.

So, the recipe is super easy to make, but I'm not going to lie to you, it takes a lot of time to make it . Suddenly, you have to think about it when you want to make pastels. Me, I was alone, I did 28 in all and shape it all tired me a little 😅

Senegalese pastel recipe: How to make the stuffing with fresh tuna?

So, by doing my stuffing, I tried to get as close as possible to the original recipe, even if I could not find a fish with white flesh as I wanted. I still bought fresh tuna, not the can! ☝🏾 And it's 100,000 times better like that .. I assure you!

Here, so I bought fresh fish that I will cook with the condiments before crumbling it using a fork myself to obtain chopped fish

Then I will fry my chopped fish again in tomato. It's super easy, I assure you! The recipe with more details is at the bottom of the article!

Pastel paste recipe

For pastel dough, you will just need a few ingredients:

• flour
• soft butter
• eggs
• milk or water
• salt and chemical

No need for sugar, since it is a style of salted donut. For kneading, you can very well do it with your hands, as I did here. The recipe is as easy to make, since you will only need to mix the ingredients together , then let it stand just time for you to make the stuffing and tomato sauce. So, little advice, if you want to make this recipe, start by making the pastel dough!

After letting stand, you will end up with a soft pastel dough , because I used soft butter in the recipe.😊

Tomato sauce recipe for pastel

Doing the accompaniment sauce will not even take you 5 minutes ! Here, all I do is fry the tomato concentrated in onion while using the rest of the farce condiments to season all of this. Super easy and so good!

But as I said above: I wrote everything the details of the step -by -step recipe in the damn recipe 🙂

How to close the pastels

That's it, the stuffing is ready and the dough too. So you have to go to the assembly, which is the last step.

So, to do these pastels well, you can use either a utensil to make the shapes (I forgot the name of this object, sorry), or you opt for the simple way like me. I used a drink to make circles and a fork to close well 🙂.

It is imperative, properly sealing the edges by pressing very firmly with the fork otherwise the pastels will risk opening during the frying

How to keep tuna pastels?

As it takes time to do them, some people advise to keep the dough already made and coated with farce closed in the freezer. The pastels then keep 2 to 3 months well . Personally, I haven't tried yet, but maybe I will test this tip soon.

How to warm up pastels?

For this recipe, the 28 pastels I made, we almost all tasted them immediately. I may have left 3 or 5 that I just warmed in the oven the next morning . And it was super good. If you keep them in the freezer, heating in the oven would be the best solution, because so they will always remain as crisp!

Thank you for reading until the end. Leave me a comment, if you ever try the recipe. It gives me a lot to read you; And record this post on Pinterest to try it later.

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The best super easy pastel senegalese recipe with fresh tuna

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Pastels or Pili are salted donuts stuffed either with fish, meat or chicken . When they are stuffed with meat, they are generally called Fatayas.

SERVINGS 28 pastels

Preparation time 1 hour h 15 minutes min

Cooking time 45 minutes min

Print the recipe recipe

Team

• glass
• fork
• pearl pot

Ingredients

  

Dough

• 500 grams of flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp soft butter soup + 250 ml of milk or 1.ca oil soup + 250 ml of water
• ½ C. Salt
• ½ chemical yeast sachet

farce

• 1 Fish: The tuna I chose
• some branch of parsley
• 1 tsp. Tomato concentrates
• 1 pepper
• 3 garlic cloves
• salt pepper
• ½ Finely cut onion
• tomato sauce
• 1 C for Tomato Concentre
• ½ Finely cut onion
• 100 ml of water
• 1 tsp. oil
• 1 tsp. green condiment

Instructions

 

• Dough
• Mix well with your hands, flour and soft butter
  
• Make a hollow in the dough and add the eggs and milk
  
• Mix well and let the dough rest while you do the stuffing
  
• Farce
  
• In a pot, add the fish, the parsley branches, the chilli, the garlic and the salt. Recover
  
• cook for 10 minutes
  
• Separate the fish from the condiments.
  
• Crumble the fish with a fork, removing all stops, really all fish stops
  
• Then crush the chili, parsley, garlic, chilli that we boil with the fish
  
• Reserve a soup of your crushed condiments. It will serve us to make a small tomato sauce to accompany the pastels.
• In another little pot, add a little oil, fry the half onion for 1 minute
• Then add the concentrated tomato, simmer for about 1 minute, then add part of the crushed green condiments, then the tomatoes. Add salt, and pepper
  
• Simmer 2 to 3 minutes and it's good
  

Tomato sauce

• Fry in very little oil the onion
• Add after about 1 minute, the tomato concentrates. Simmer 1 to 2 minute maximum
• Add green condiments and water
• Simmer 2 min, add a little salt, the pepper and it's ready

Frying

• spread your dough
  
• with a glass cut the dough into a small circle
  
• Add a teaspoon of your stuffing in the small circle
  
• close by pressing the edges strongly with a fork
  
• In a hot pot heat ½ liter of oil
• Heat the oil for at least 5 minutes. If the oil is not hot enough, the pastels will rebel with oil.
• Test the pastel. If pastel rises directly to the surface, it is because the oil is quite hot. Otherwise wait a little more
• When the oil is quite hot. Fry pastels. Leave Cahuq golden rating before removing and spreading it on absorbent paper
  
• Enjoy your food!
  

Notes

Use either oil and water. either butter and milk. I opted for butter and milk for more softness in taste. But it depends on you
if you want to make the dough with a machine, choose the end with hook to mix

Author: Viliane27

Type of dish: appetizer, donuts

Kitchen: African

Keyword: donut, pastel, fish recipe, senegal