Snack · 50 min · brazilian

Pastel de Feira (Street-Market Pastries)

A Brazilian snack built around flour and water — on the table in 50 minutes.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 3 cups Flour
• 1 cup Water
• 0.25 cup Vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp Vodka
• 1 tsp Salt
• 0.75 lb Ground beef
• 1 Onion
• 0.5 cup Olives
• 2 Eggs
• 3 cups Vegetable oil

Steps

1. Mix the flour, water, oil, vodka, and salt into a smooth dough and knead 8 minutes until silky. The vodka evaporates in the fryer, leaving shattering crispness — it is the street vendor’s secret.
2. Rest the dough 30 minutes, then roll paper-thin; you should almost see through it. Thin dough blisters; thick dough goes leathery.
3. Brown the beef with chopped onion and salt, then fold in chopped olives and chopped hard-boiled eggs. Cool the filling completely — hot filling melts the dough.
4. Cut the dough into rectangles, fill one half, fold over, and seal the edges firmly with a fork. Press out air pockets so they do not explode in the oil.
5. Fry at 375°F, one or two at a time, 2 to 3 minutes until blistered and golden. They puff like little pillows.
6. Drain on a rack and eat immediately, preferably standing at a market stall with sugarcane juice — but your kitchen works too.

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