{{Short description|Mexican turnover}} {{Infobox food | name = Paste | image = Mexico_City_pastie.JPG | caption = | alternate_name = | country = Mexico | region = Hidalgo | creator = | course = | type = Turnover | served = | main_ingredient = | variations = | calories = | other = }} A '''paste''' ({{IPA|es|ˈpaste|lang}}) is a small turnover produced in the state of Hidalgo in central Mexico and in the surrounding area.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pastes ''(Spanish)''|publisher=Turismo del Gobierno del Estado de Hidalgo |url=http://turismo.hidalgo.gob.mx/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=147|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611213431/http://turismo.hidalgo.gob.mx/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=147|archive-date=11 June 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> They are stuffed with a variety of fillings including potatoes and ground beef, apples, pineapple, sweetened rice, or other typical Mexican ingredients, such as tinga and mole.
The paste has its roots in the Cornish pasty introduced by miners and builders from Cornwall in the United Kingdom, who were contracted in the towns of Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte) and Pachuca in Hidalgo starting in 1824.<ref name="Museum">{{Cite news|author=Millward, David|date=14 November 2011|title=World's first Cornish pasty museum opens in Mexico|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=UK|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8887155/Worlds-first-Cornish-pasty-museum-opens-in-Mexico.html}}</ref>
==Festival== The International Pasty Festival is held in Real del Monte for three days each October.<ref>{{citation |ref={{harvid|Festival Internacional del Paste Real del Monte 2015}} |language=es |title=Festival Internacional del Paste Real del Monte 2015 |work=Donde Hay Feria |url=http://www.dondehayferia.com/festival-internacional-del-paste-real-del-monte-2015 |access-date=2016-08-11 |archive-date=2016-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812205030/http://www.dondehayferia.com/festival-internacional-del-paste-real-del-monte-2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Food}} *Cornish emigration to Mexico * List of pastries * List of stuffed dishes
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://domhan-ceilteach.blogspot.com/2007/02/redruth-and-camborne-town-concils-say.html Historic links between Cornwall UK and the Pachuca/Real del Monte area in Hidalgo, Mexico] * {{Cite web|url=http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/cornishlatin/abouthiswebsite.htm|title=The Cornish in Latin America|publisher=Cornish History Network, University of Exeter|location=Exeter}}
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Category:Mexican cuisine Category:Turnover Category:Stuffed dishes Category:Hidalgo (state)