Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, empanadas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Add some meat filling to each empanada and fold the dough over in half to enclose the filling. An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Southern European, Latin American, Indonesian, and the Philippines cultures. Empanadas are one of my favorite foods to make and also to eat.

Empanadas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Empanadas is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have empanadas using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Empanadas:

1. Prepare 2 cup masa
2. Take 1 1/2 cup water
3. Make ready 3 medium potatoes
4. Make ready 1 lb picadillo (Puerto Rican meat filling, or filling of choice)
5. Make ready shredded sharp cheddar (optional)
6. Get vegetable oil

Empanadas , or beef turnovers, are discs of pastry packed with meat. Some turnover recipes call for all manner of fillings, but this GOYA® Empanada recipe features a delicious tomato, onion, garlic and. I did not like this dough. It came out way too flaky for my taste.

Steps to make Empanadas:

1. Peel the potatoes and boil them whole until fork tender. Drain and set aside to cool.
2. If you don't know what picadillo is you can find recipes all over the net for it. It's a Puerto Rican meat mixture and is amazing. Anyways, mix the water and masa together well. If it's too dry add a little more water if it's too wet add a little more masa. You don't want the dough to be sticky or crumbly.
3. Dice the potatoes up then add it to the picadillo mixture.
4. Grab about a golf ball sized piece of the masa, roll it into a ball then place on a piece of parchment paper, place another piece of parchment paper on top. Roll the dough out to about the thickness of a corn tortilla, maintaining a round shape. This process would be much faster with a tortilla press, however I do not own one so this is my method.
5. Place about a 1/4 cup of the filling onto one half of the dough, fold the other half over and pinch seams together or use a fork. I personally don't do either, but it's hard to explain how I do it,it almost looks like it's twisting around the edge.
6. In a skillet of oil fry the empanada over medium high heat until golden on each side. Serve with your favorite meat and rice and enjoy!

It's better for pastry empanadas than savory ones. Empanada, a baked or fried pastry stuffed with meat, cheese, vegetables, fruits, and other ingredients. Empanadas can be found around the world, especially in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Our delicious empanadas are handmade, baked not fried, and always filled with love. The Empanada Company specializes in handmade, baked not fried, empanadas.

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