Empanadas de Carne - Meat Empanadas
Lard-pastry empanadas filled with sautéed ground beef, onion, pepper, garlic and hard-boiled eggs, then fried or baked.
Ingredients
| 2 чаши | flour |
| 1/3 чаша | lard |
| 2 ч.л. | baking powder |
| — | salt |
| — | warm water |
| половин кг | ground beef |
| 1 | onion |
| 1 | green bell pepper |
| 2 | garlic cloves |
| — | parsley |
| — | cumin |
| на вкус | salt and pepper |
| 2-3 | hard-boiled eggs |
Instructions
For the empanada dough:
- Combine the flour, salt and baking powder.
- Cut in the lard and rub it with your fingers until it becomes coarse crumbs (as if making a pie).
- Add the warm water and knead the dough.
- Knead until you form a soft ball.
- Cut the dough into 12 pieces.
- Roll out each piece and cut it into a 12 cm circle.
- Use up all the dough, making it into circles.
For the empanadas de carne:
- Sauté the ground beef with onion, green pepper and garlic.
- Add parsley and cumin (I put a lot of both, especially the cumin).
- Season with salt and pepper.
- When it is done, chop the eggs and gently stir them into the mixture.
- Spoon some of the mixture onto the dough circles and fold them over. Press the edges with a fork.
- Fry in deep fat until golden brown, or bake them (if baking, brush their surface with egg).