Empanadas
An easy recipe for home made Empanadas
Ingredients
Empanadas meat filling
- 12 Empanada Dough Or follow the how-to for making home made dough
- 0.5 kg Ground beef
- 1 Onion Chopped
- 2 cloves Garlic Chopped
- 1 Red Pepper Chopped
- 15 gr Baking Powder
- 10-15 Olives Some with the pip. The rest cut into slices.
- 2 Eggs Boiled
- 1 Egg Beaten
- 2 spoons Oil
- 1 cup Water Room temperature
Home Made Dough
- 0.5 kg Flour You'll probably need a bit more later on
- 30 ml Olive oil
- 1 cup Water Room temperature
- 1 tbsp Salt
- 10 gr Baking Powder
Instructions
Home made dough
- Here are all the ingredients
- Insert the flour to a large container and make a hole in the middle
- Insert the water and the olive oil into the hole and mix with your hands until firm.
- If too wet - add more flour. If too dry - add more water.
- Cover the dough with a kitchen towel for 30 minutes.
Empanadas Filling
- Here are all the ingredients
- Heat a pot with the oil and insert the onion until it's transparent
- Add the Chopped pepper
- Cook for about 10-15 minutes and add the Meat
- Add some salt and pepper (by taste)
- Add the water
- Steer until all the beef is brown
- Add the eggs and the olives
- Let it rest for about 30 minutes
Preparing the Empanada
- Heat up an oven to 180°
- If the dough is home made, you'll need to cut it into circles sized as your hand
- Take a spoon of the meat mix and put it in the middle of the dough (Perfect circle right there)
- Then fold the dough creating a half circle
- Pinch the edge of the dough (with a fork for example, this will help you later)
- Fold the corner into the Empanada and then continue folding moving to the other end of the Empanada
- After all the Empanadas are done, brush them with the beaten egg and insert them into the oven.
- Serve hot and enjoy!
Notes
For each different filling the type of folding is different.
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