Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, empanadas. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Empanadas is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Empanadas is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

For the empanada dough: Combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Making empanadas is easy thanks to some help from Pillsbury dough. Whether you like them stuffed with beef, pork or chicken, there's an empanada recipe here for everyone.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook empanadas using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Empanadas:

1. Take 2 cup masa
2. Get 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. Take shredded sharp cheddar (optional)
6. Make ready vegetable oil

Just about any kind of fruit, including melon, is fine. Or make the meat filling by using your favorite type of meat. Make one of the fillings or double the dough and make both! Empanadas are pastry shell turnovers made by folding dough over a filling, sealing it, and cooking it, either by baking or frying.

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!

Just about every Caribbean island has a recipe for sweet or savory fillings. If you love empanadas, our basic take on the classic Latin-American turnover is sure to please. They can even be prepped ahead of time and frozen, then baked for a quick dinner. Empanadas, mainly based on South American recipes, are widely available in New York City, New Jersey, and Miami from food carts, food trucks, and restaurants. Empanadas are usually found in U.

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