Empanadas (dumplings) with salad

AUTHOR
Louis Ramirez
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4.3 4
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 24
  • 500 g Flour
  • 125 g Butter or margarine
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 500 g Tomatoes
  • 1 Shallot
  • 1/2 bunch Chives
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Wine vinegar
  • 10 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • 1 red chilli pepper
  • 500 g mixed minced meat
  • 7-10 Tbsp ground cilantro
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cayenne pepper
  • 1 Egg yolk (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film

Directions

  1. 1

    Knead flour, fat, 3/4 teaspoon salt and 175 ml warm water to a smooth dough. Wrap dough in foil and chill. For the salad, wash and clean the tomatoes and cut them into slices. Peel shallot and cut into fine cubes.

  2. 2

    Wash the chives, shake dry and, except for a little to garnish, cut into fine rolls. Mix tomatoes, shallot and chives. Marinate with salt, pepper, vinegar and 1 tablespoon of oil. For the filling, peel onion and garlic.

  3. 3

    Clean and wash the peppers. Chilli clean, wash. Finely dice onion, garlic, chilli and paprika. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil and fry the minced meat for about 10 minutes, turning it well. After approx. 5 minutes add the prepared vegetables and cook.

  4. 4

    Season to taste with salt, coriander and cayenne pepper. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface to a thickness of approx. 3 mm and cut into circles (approx. 9 cm Ø). Whisk egg yolk and 2 tbsp. water. Spread approx. 1 tbsp of the filling in the middle of the circles.

  5. 5

    Thinly coat the edges with the egg yolk mixture. Fold the dough circles and press the edges together. Heat 8 tablespoons of oil and fry the empanadas in portions for about 8 minutes, turning them over. Arrange empanadas and salad.

  6. 6

    Dust with cayenne pepper and garnish with chives.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
200 kcal
CARBS
16 g
FATS
12 g
PROTEINS
7 g

Categories & Tags

Snacks/PartySummerParty