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  • Serves: 5 Servings

Empanada (Meat Pie)

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Category: Beef, Mexican, Pies

 Ingredients List

  • ----------------------------------FILLING----------------------------------
  • 1 lb Ground Beef
  • 2 Garlic Cloves, Minced
  • 2 Hard Boiled Eggs
  • Cold, Chopped
  • 1/4 c Milk
  • Salt & Black Pepper
  • Raisins, To Taste
  • Green Olives, Chopped
  • 1 pn Crushed Red Pepper
  • Cooking Oil
  • 1 lg Onion, Chopped
  • Pastry Dough

 Directions

Fry onions in cooking oil until soft. Add minced garlic and brown lightly.
Drain oil. Add ground beef to onions and saute until meat turns a light
brown. Add chopped olives, eggs, salt and black pepper, raisins, pinch of
red pepper and milk. Allow to simmer (uncovered) over low heat for 5 mins.

PASTRY DOUGH: Any good grade of commercial pie crust mix will give
satisfactory results -or- use your own favorite recipe .... Roll out dough
1/8" thickness and cut with a 5" cutter. Place meat filling on one side of
the dough. Fold the other side over the filling and pinch the edges. Deep
fry in hot cooking oil until crisp and brown .. or .. bake in a 400øF oven
until the crust is a golden brown

Yields 5 meat pies


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