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Empanadas
(Chile)
Ingredients:
3 ½ Cups
of flour
1 Pack of yeast dissolved in ¼ cup lukewarm water
2 Eggs
½ Cup lukewarm milk
Pinch of salt
1 Stick softened butter
½ LB. Ground beef
2
Onions, chopped
1 Clove garlic, minced
1 Dried red
pepper, crushed
2 Hard-boiled eggs chopped
8 pitted
green olives
½ Cup raisins
Paprika, marjoram to
taste
Cooking oil
1 Beaten egg
Procedure:
Place flour in a bowl,
make well in center. Pour in the milk, eggs, and dissolve yeast; mix
thoroughly. Add butter to obtain a smooth dough. Cover with plastic
wrap and let stand for 2 hours. To prepare the stuffing: mix in the
meat, onions, garlic and red pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pan
and cook the stuffing in it. Let it cool and add the chopped eggs,
olives, raisins, paprika and marjoram to taste. Roll out the dough
to a quarter inch thickness as if you were making a pie. Cut circles
4 inch diameter. Cover each half-circle the stuffing; brush the
edges with the beaten egg. Fold each circle in two and press sides.
In a pan, brown
turnovers.
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