In Brazil, This Is Typical Street Food – We Want It Too!

ground meat

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: textured vegetable protein

Chicken is leaner, while textured vegetable protein is budget-friendly.

cheese

🥗Healthier: low-fat cheese

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Low-fat cheese reduces calories, while processed cheese is often cheaper.

all-purpose flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: generic flour brands

Whole wheat flour adds fiber, while generic brands can save costs.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Olive oil is healthier, while canola oil is often less expensive.

For the dough, first add the flour to a bowl, make a small hollow in the center, and pour in the oil. Next, add the egg, water, cachaça and salt before kneading everything into a dough and then shaping it into a ball.

Sprinkle some flour on the work surface, remove a small piece from the ball of dough, and roll it out evenly. Next, cut away the sides so that your dough is in a square shape.

Add the meat, mozzarella, onion, parsley, garlic and dry ingredients to a bowl and mix them carefully. Place about a tablespoon of the mixture just above the center of the dough square.

Wet the edge of the dough and fold it in half. Press the edge of the dough down and then add a pattern using a fork.

Deep-fry the pastel in oil at 360°F for 6 minutes.

First, heat up the oil in a pan and mix in the curry powder. Keep on stirring so that it doesn't burn. Next, add the whole chicken and cook both sides until golden brown.

Take the chicken out of the pan, leave it to cool, and pluck it into thin strips. Carefully mix the chicken with cream cheese, garlic and the dry ingredients.

Add the filling to the dough as in version 1, fold it up and deep-fry it in hot oil.

Slice the cherry tomatoes in half and add them to the mozzarella and oregano. Add the mixture to the dough as in version 1.

Fold the dough square up as before and deep-fry the pastel.

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