Pastelón is a type of casserole dish layered like Italian lasagne made throughout Latin America. Many pastelóns contain a starch, cheese, meat, and vegetables

In Puerto Rico, pastelón is considered a Puerto Rican lasagna. Sweet plantains are peeled cut lengthwise in to strips and fried in butter and olive oil mix. The plantain replaces lasagna pasta. Ground meat is usually seasoned with bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, basil, parsley, olives, capers, raisins and garlic. Plantains are then placed at the bottom of a backing pan layered with meat filling, cheese and bechamel sauce or marinara sauce. This is then repeated about two more times making layers just like a lasagna. It is then baked. Plantains can be replaced with batata, boiled mashed cassava or breadfruit.