Receta Chicken Empanada
Chicken Empanada
December 15th, 2014 Manny
This is I think the most popular kind of empanada, the chicken empanada. Either you can bake this empanada or fry it if you don’t mind having a lot of grease in your meal. Baking is preferred not only it is healthy because it is grease less, it is also more flaky when you bake it. Those are some advantages of baking pastries rather than frying.
Ingredients:
Filling for Empanada:
- 2 cups cooked, flaked chicken meat
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cups diced potatoes, cooked
- 1 green bell pepper, finely chopped
- 2 tsp. curry powder (optional)
- 1/4 cup evaporated milk
- 1/2 tsp. powdered pepper
- salt to taste
- How to cook the filling for chicken empanada:
- Saute onion, add all ingredients except milk. cook for 5 minutes, add milk and cook for another 3 minutes. Cool. Then use this filling to fill in dough.
- Ingredients for the crust:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (no need to sift)
- 1 tsp. fine salt
- 6 Tbsp. water
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine (chilled)
- 2 Tbsp. white sugar
- How to make the chicken empanada:
Mix sugar, salt and flour. Cut in butter using a blender or 2 knives until it resembles coarse cornmeal.
Sprinkle water and mix well with hand to form a ball. Knead lightly.
Sprinkle flour on a board and roll out dough into 1/4″ thick.
Cut using a round cutter (a medium sized saucer can be used if there is no molder. Place saucer up-side down on dough and cut with a knife).
Then, fill each cut dough with 2 Tbsp. of sauteed fillings. Fold dough to form a half moon, press one end to the other.
Brush with egg yolk or milk. Arranged on a greased baking sheet.
Bake in a preheated oven about 350°F until the crust is golden brown.
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