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Empanadas recipe

Created by Ricardo Yoia

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Cuisine: Argentinian

The most common and popular empanada is stuffed with beef, but other common varieties are ham and cheese, capresse (cheese, tomato, and basil), chicken, and vegetable.

Ingredients

Puff pastry cut in rounds
2 onions
beef mince
2 garlic cloves
1/3 tin tomatoes
Oregano
Salt & Pepper
2 Hard boiled eggs
A handful of stuffed olives
1k lard for frying

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Preparation

Cut the pastry into rounds about the size of a saucer.

Chop onions and garlic and fry in pan with olive oil. Add beef mince and brown, Then add one third of a tin of tomatoes, a pinch of oregano, salt and pepper to taste. Continue to stir until the meat is cooked. Chop the hard boiled eggs and add to mixture along with the stuffed olives. Set aside.

In a deep frypan melt the lard. Place a spoonful of the meat mixture in the centre of each pastry round and fold pastry to cover the meat. Seal the edge by crimping the pastry edge. Fry in hot lard until golden. Drain the empanadas on paper towelling and serve.

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Comments (6)

30 Sep 2010 12:26 AEST

Patti

Carlingford

Empanadas are not only from Argentina

Empandas are South American not only from Argentina. Most countries in South America have a local version of Empanada. Please stop calling South American's "spanish". We are not from Spain, we are Latinos or Hispanics. We speak spanish but are Chileans, Argentinians, Colombians, Brazilians etc. Australians speak english but we don't call you English do we? Calling us spanish shows ignorance.

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17 Sep 2010 01:55 AEST

REg

Donnyside

cooking oil

You dont have to use lard to deep fry. I agree LARD is BAD!! use vegetable or canola oil.. heaps better than LARD.

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16 Sep 2010 11:56 AEST

Aysen

Brunswick

Lard!

Can you cook them in something other than lard? I've never bought that stuff.

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02 Sep 2010 11:20 AEST

Kali

Canberra

Tuna

Traditional Spanish empanadas are also really good with a canned tuna and tomato filling. RICO !

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29 Aug 2010 10:29 AEST

Crimson Lily

Perth

Delicious!

Love these - I think they are part of Spanish cuisine rather than specifically Argentine; they are eaten in Philippines also.

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02 Jul 2010 08:59 AEST

Tony

Yum! Couldn't eat enough of these on a cold winter day at a Canberra market.

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