Empanada (Meat Pie)
Empanada (Meat Pie)
Nothing real fancy, this recipe will get you started, fun to experiment with to fine tune to suit your own tastes.
Great to have to show off to the more domestic in your wrecking crew.
Not too shabby to chew on whilst watching the game on TV, but not suited for soap operas, as they can become habit forming.
----------------- FILLING ----------------
1 lb Ground Beef
2 x Garlic Cloves, Minced
2 x Hard Boiled Eggs
Cold, Chopped
1/4 cup Milk
Salt & Black Pepper
Raisins, To Taste
Green Olives, Chopped
1 pinch Crushed Red Pepper
Cooking Oil
1 large Onion, Chopped
Pastry Dough
Fry onions in cooking oil until soft. Add minced garlic and brown lightly.
Drain oil. Add ground beef to onions and saute until meat turns a light brown. Add chopped olives, eggs, salt and black pepper, raisins, pinch of red pepper and milk. Allow to simmer (uncovered) over low heat for 5 min.
Or, cut the onion into quarters, set in a heated BBQ, and bake till soft, fine chop the onion, and mix in with the other ingredents in a pan, roast in the BBQ till the meat has cooked, and turned to a light brown color. For a bit of added paz-zaz, put a soaked foil packet of chips over the flames to induce some smoke.
PASTRY DOUGH: Any good grade of commercial pie crust mix will give satisfactory results -or- use your own favorite recipe .... Roll out dough 1/8" thickness and cut with a 5" cutter. Place meat filling on one side of the dough. Fold the other side over the filling and pinch the edges. Deep fry in hot cooking oil until crisp and brown .. or .. bake in a 400 F barbecue until the crust is a golden brown
Yields 5 meat pies
Nothing real fancy, this recipe will get you started, fun to experiment with to fine tune to suit your own tastes.
Great to have to show off to the more domestic in your wrecking crew.
Not too shabby to chew on whilst watching the game on TV, but not suited for soap operas, as they can become habit forming.
----------------- FILLING ----------------
1 lb Ground Beef
2 x Garlic Cloves, Minced
2 x Hard Boiled Eggs
Cold, Chopped
1/4 cup Milk
Salt & Black Pepper
Raisins, To Taste
Green Olives, Chopped
1 pinch Crushed Red Pepper
Cooking Oil
1 large Onion, Chopped
Pastry Dough
Fry onions in cooking oil until soft. Add minced garlic and brown lightly.
Drain oil. Add ground beef to onions and saute until meat turns a light brown. Add chopped olives, eggs, salt and black pepper, raisins, pinch of red pepper and milk. Allow to simmer (uncovered) over low heat for 5 min.
Or, cut the onion into quarters, set in a heated BBQ, and bake till soft, fine chop the onion, and mix in with the other ingredents in a pan, roast in the BBQ till the meat has cooked, and turned to a light brown color. For a bit of added paz-zaz, put a soaked foil packet of chips over the flames to induce some smoke.
PASTRY DOUGH: Any good grade of commercial pie crust mix will give satisfactory results -or- use your own favorite recipe .... Roll out dough 1/8" thickness and cut with a 5" cutter. Place meat filling on one side of the dough. Fold the other side over the filling and pinch the edges. Deep fry in hot cooking oil until crisp and brown .. or .. bake in a 400 F barbecue until the crust is a golden brown
Yields 5 meat pies
