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What's an empanada?
"An empanada is a Spanish and Portuguese stuffed bread or pastry, also known as "impanada" in Italy. The name comes from the verb empanar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread. Empanada is made by folding a dough or bread patty around the stuffing. You can stuff empanadas with about anything.
What's good about empanadas?
Empanadas are very easy to make, they are delicious, a very nutritios fast food to eat on the go, easy to transport to a party, a family reunion, they are good for snack, apetizer, main meal, after parties, breackfast, etc., hot or cold you can take them anywhere, anytime, you can keep it refrigerated or frozzen, and you can pair them with a dry, flavorful wine, Cabernet souvignon, Malbec are great choices.
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Beef Empanada Recipe


Cook Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 2 lbs ground beef
  • 1 onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 1 red peper, coarsely chopped
  • 2 hardboiled eggs, coarsely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon of vegetable broth (
  • 1/2 cup raisins, soaked in warm water for 1 hour (optional)
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 2 tea spoon of salt
  • paprika
  • cumin

Preparation:

Sauté the onions and peper in the oil over medium heat until they are cooked. Put the ground beef in and the salt mix them well and begin to brown, medium heat. When the beef is cooked through, add in the broth, cumin and paprika. Let them cook a little bit more to get all the flavors from the spices, try it to see if more salt is needed. Fold in the eggs and let it cool.
 


For the dough

Ingredients:

  • 1 flower 1 pound
  • lard 1 tableapoon
  • water as needed
  • salt

Preparation:

Stir the flower into a bowl, stir the lard or shortening , the salt and the water, little by little until the dough comes together smoothly. Keep kneading the dough, adding water if necessary, until the dough is very smooth. You can knead the dough with a standing mixer and a dough hook attachment.

What is lard

Lard is pig fat (in Argentina cow fat is also used to make lard it is less heavier with the stomach, Cooking fat obtained from cattle or sheep is known as suet or tallow). Lard was commonly used in many cuisines as a cooking fat or shortening, or as a spread similar to butter. Its use in contemporary cuisine has diminished because of health concerns posed by its saturated-fat content and its often negative image; however, many contemporary cooks and bakers favor it over other fats for select uses. And because empanadas dough uses just a little bit of it, you don't have to worry about it.

How to make lard

Actually it is very easy. Just cut a cup of fat from any piece of cow meat (cubes of a dace size aprox.), put it in a deep pan, over low heat until they are fully cooked, you have to stir ocationally, you will see the oil coming fron the fat. When the fat are getting over cooked turn of the hit and strained the oil into another pan, let it cool. You can keep this lard in a jar in the refrigerator for a long time. It brings a very good flavor to many kind of food.
 
 
 

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