❤ for the dough, you will need:

1 ½ cup of all-purpose flour
1 egg beaten
½ coffee spoon of salt
½ coffee spoon of dry yeast
1 Coffee Spoon of sugar
50 ml of water or according to needs
2 Soup Spoon of oil
For the joke, you will need:

1 Box of tuna, or you can use any kind of cooked fish (Sardines,)
1 Onion, finely sliced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 Coffee Spoon of tomato paste or 1 Fresh Tomato (cut in dice)
1 small pepper, optional
Oil for the fry
2 to soup of water
Salt to taste
1 egg yellow or water
If you don’t have the tuna use a poison that you cook and remove the bones.

❤ make the dough:

Step 1: in a large bowl, add flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Then mix the whole thing up.

Step 2: add the egg to the flour mix and mix well. Then add a few drops of water when you’re still mixing.

Step 3: add the oil and knead the dough for a few minutes. The dough must be flexible and not dry at all.

Knead the dough for about 5 to 10 minutes non-stop, until it becomes smooth and elastic.

Then cover the dough with a towel or aluminium paper and let rest for about 30 minutes or 1 hour.

❤ make the joke:

Start by removing the oil from the tuna and keep that oil.

Now heat up a small pan and add the tuna oil to it.

Then add the onion and garlic. Blow up until the onion is tender.

Add Fish, tomato, salt, Pepper (optional) and 2 teaspoons of water. Let the mix cook for about 5 to 10 minutes.

Put it in a bowl and let it cool down completely.

👉 to finish:

Step 1: take a small amount of the dough (about the size of a lemon). Place it in a flat place and use a pastry roll to flatten the dough.

Step 2: add the mix of fish in the middle and brush the edges with the egg yellow or water. Close well with a fork.

You can if you want to cook the pastels for 30 minutes in the oven, but they are traditionally fried.

So, heat up the medium fire oil and fry them until each pastel is golden (15 minutes each).

Serve them immediately with pepper sauce if you want.

CREDIT: LES RECETTES DU MONDE