What Is An Empanada?
If you haven't had an empanada before then these tender, flaky crescents are going to become your new favourite dish. Imagine biting into a golden pastry cocooning a savoury mix of top quality ground beef and aromatic spices. The best part? These little bites of heaven are easily customizable.
Not a fan of onions? Don’t add them.
Wish there was a little something extra? Add potatoes or peas.
Tired of our grass fed & finished ground beef? Substitute it for any other meat that you can think of:
Before you get ready to dive in, you should probably clean the drool off of your chin. Don’t worry: it happens to everyone.
Empanada Dough
While you could spend the time creating your own dough, a visit to your local grocery store for two packages of all-butter puff pastry will save you the time.
- To start, roll out your pastry dough to roughly 3 mm thick
- Then cut out as many circles as you can using a cookie cutter or dish
*Note - two 375 g packages will usually get you 18 discs if you cut your circles to roughly the same size as a large orange.
Empanada Filling
- Get your sauce pan nice and warm and add olive oil
- Once that’s ready, add two garlic cloves and one finely diced onion
- After those two ingredients become soft, but not coloured, add cumin, cinnamon, and paprika to taste
Now comes the fun part:
- Add about 300 g of ground beef and season it with salt and pepper
- Cook it for about five minutes, then add oregano, chilli flakes, and a pinch of sugar
*Note - make sure that you taste it to make sure that it’s perfect…But not so much that you don’t have any filling left for your empanadas.
How To Fold An Empanada
After the filling has cooled off for a few minutes, spoon about one tablespoon of the mixture onto each pastry disc, but make sure that you leave about a finger’s width of space around the edge.
Once all of the pastry discs have been topped with beef, brush egg wash around half of the rim, fold the disc in half, and seal the edges together. Make sure that you crimp the edges (this can be done by pressing the prongs of a fork against the edge) to get rid of any potential air pockets.
Empanada Temperature & Cooking Time
Here are the next steps to finishing your empanadas:
- Put your empanadas in the fridge to firm up and preheat your oven to 350 degrees
- Once your oven is ready to go, puncture your empanadas once with a skewer to create a steam hole and brush with egg wash
- Now relax and know that in 18 to 20 minutes
- Once you hear the timer go off, take your masterpiece out of the oven and let cool for as long as you can stand it
- You can serve them with chimichurri sauce on the side or scooped on top if you really want to impress someone
- Final step, enjoy!
Empanada Secret Ingredients
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