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- Cuisine: South American
Debate rages over which country invented the empanada, and varieties using different sorts of pastry abound. They are the ultimate snack food. They can be filled with cheese and chilli or meat, tuna, prawns or vegetables, egg and olives, or a combination. Some are baked, while others are deep fried.
Ingredients
1 kilo of minced beef (choose mince that includes some meat fat)
180-200g chopped shallots
180-200g brown onions
½ teaspoon aji (dried type of chilli capsicums)
3 tbsp of vegetable oil
130g of butter
130g sultanas
3 tbsp white sugar
Salt to taste
250 beef stock (hot to seal the beef mince)
3 hard-boiled eggs in pieces
Handful of green olives
1 tsp of sweet paprika
¾ tsp of ground cumin
½ tsp of ground cloves (optional)
1 kilo short crust pastry
Preparation
Put oil and butter in a large frying pan on medium heat. Add the onions and shallots and cook until the onions are translucent (not brown). Add a sprinkle of aji. Then add minced beef and brown. Pour on warm stock until all ingredients are cooked through. Season the mix with salt and sugar. Then add sweet paprika, a little water, cinnamon and cloves. Reduce the mixture over low heat and when ready, remove from heat and allow to cool.
Take balls of pastry about the size of a golf ball. Roll out each ball into a circle about 10-15cm in diameter and lightly flour.
In the centre of each round, add a generous spoonful of cooled meat filling, chopped stuffed green olives, a few sultanas and some roughly chopped hard boiled egg then a sprinkle of cumin.
Fold over and crimp the edges to secure the filling.
Brush the empanadas with melted butter. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200ï‚°C for 25 minutes or until golden.
South American Restaurants
Displaying 10 of 23 South American Restaurants.
| Restaurant | Suburb | |
| 1. | Brazilian Touch Theatre Restaurant | Fortitude Valley |
| 2. | Enris Restaurant | Hawthorn |
| 3. | BlueFire Churrascaria Grill & Bar | Docklands |
| 4. | Bodega | Surry Hills |
| 5. | El Gaucho | Fitzroy North |
| 6. | Favela | Potts Point |
| 7. | Fiesta on Oxford | Bondi Junction |
| 8. | Churrasco | Coogee |
| 9. | LuLo | Hawthorn |
| 10. | Genies Cafe Restaurant | Kallista |
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