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Overview

Pastechi is an Uncommon-tier cooked dish in Windrose. A savory fried corn-dough pastry stuffed with spiced meat and tomato, modelled on a real-world appetizer from Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It grants a Max Health increase for 15 minutes, with no secondary stat bonus; it occupies one of the two food buff slots but does not compete with stat-buff dishes.

Buff and Duration

Recipe

Cornmeal is produced from Corn at a Millstoneso a Pastechi production line assumes the player has a Millstone placed and Corn incoming from the Foothills. One current community data lists the recipe as Meat + Cornmeal only; the three-source majority ( + + Steam Community Guide) includes 2x Tomato, which is what this article reflects.

Ingredient Sourcing

• Meatgeneric wildlife drop, primarily from boars and sows in the Coastal Jungle.

• TomatoFoothills crop; grown from seeds at a Seedbed or gathered from ruins.

• Cornmealground from Corn at a Millstone.

Role in the Meta

Pastechi is the farmable Max-HP Uncommon dish. calls it a "reliable, farmable source" of Max HP once the player has both crop farms and a steady Meat supply. Because it carries no stat, it pairs well with a dedicated stat-buff dish in the second slot (for exampleSpicy Skewered Crab for +5 Strength or Coconut Soup for +5 Agility), letting the player run a stat buff and a Max HP buff simultaneously. See Cooking for the two-food-slot stacking rule.

Lore Note

item description, Pastechi is "fried corn dough with a meat filling, a traditional appetizer on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao." The real-world pastechi is a Dutch Caribbean empanada variant; the in-game recipe keeps the tomato-spiced filling traditional to those islands.

Rarity Correction

An earlier version of this article labelled Pastechi as Common. Four independent current community data agree the dish is Uncommon. This article has been updated to reflect the correct tier.

See Also

• Cooking

• Cooking Recipes

• Food and Potions

• Cooking Fire

• Dodo Broth