Bollos Pelones

Name: Bollos Pelones
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Venezuelan
Ingredients: 2 cups precooked cornmeal; 300g minced beef; 2 cups tomato sauce; 1 onion, chopped

Bollos Pelones/BOH-yohs peh-LOH-nehs/

About this dish

Soft corn dough dumplings filled with seasoned meat, simmered in a light tomato sauce.

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Ingredients

🌽2 cups precooked cornmeal

🥩300g minced beef

🍅2 cups tomato sauce

🧅1 onion, chopped

Method

Serves 2

Cook minced beef with onion and seasoning for the filling.

Mix cornmeal with water and a little oil into a soft dough.

Shape the dough around a portion of filling into a ball.

Simmer the dumplings gently in tomato sauce.

Cook until the dough is fully set and the sauce has thickened.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Bollos pelones are a traditional Venezuelan dish, the corn dumplings cooked directly in a savory sauce rather than wrapped in leaves.

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