Empanada (meat pie)

5 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 pounds Ground Beef
2 Garlic Cloves, Minced
2 Hard Boiled Eggs
Cold, Chopped
¼ cup Milk
Salt & Black Pepper
Raisins, To Taste
Green Olives, Chopped
1 pinch Crushed Red Pepper
Cooking Oil
1 large Onion, Chopped
Pastry Dough

Directions

FILLING

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 ⅛" 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

Posted by Jodi Edmundson

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