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Empanadas bean and chicken fillings

Empanadas bean and chicken fillings

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Empanadas bean and chicken fillings. Crust recipe, makes 12 empanadas 3 cups (360g) all-purpose flour 4 oz (113g) butter-flavored shortening (or butter, or lard) 2 teaspoons (10g) salt (plus more coarse salt for topping) 2 eggs (one for the dough, one for the egg wash) 1/3-1/2 cup (80-118 mL) white wine (or water) Combine the flour and salt and cut in the fat until you get a breadcrumb-like consistency. Mix in one egg and enough wine (or water) to make it come together into a dough. Knead for a few minutes until it's somewhat elastic. Cover and refrigerate for at least a half hour before rolling. Prepare an egg wash by beating an egg with enough water to get a paintable consistency. When the dough has rested, divide into 12 balls and roll them smooth. Roll each one out individually between two sheets of parchment or wax paper until it's like a thick tortilla. Put a little filling in the center of each one (filling recipes below, gather the excess up around the filling and crimp the seam across the top of the empanada. If you're having trouble sealing the crust to itself, bush on some egg wash and use it as glue. Put all the filled empanadas on a parchment-lined baking sheet, brush them all with egg wash and sprinkle a little coarse salt over top. Bake at 400 F/200 C until brown. CHICKEN FILLING FOR 12 EMPANADAS 2 big chicken legs (or thighs) 1 14. 5 oz (411g) can crushed or diced tomatoes 1 jalape o 1 bunch green onions 2-3 garlic cloves cheese (I used about 60g manchego) oil salt spices (I used oregano, cumin, smoked paprika and a little cinnamon) Heat a little oil in pot and get the chicken browning. Meanwhile slice the green onions, peel and chop the garlic, and dice the jalape o. When the chicken is brown, put in the white slices of onion (reserve the greens, jalape o and garlic and fry all that for a minute. Put in your spices and let them fry for a minute. Deglaze with the canned tomatoes. Put in a pinch of salt to start with, cover, reduce the heat and summer until the chicken is soft about an hour. Remove the chicken to a cutting board. While it cools, turn up the heat on the pot and reduce the sauce until very thick, stirring constantly. Pull the meat off the chicken, shred it a bit (but remember it'll shred more as you stir into the sauce) and maybe chop it a bit if you don't like long strings of shredded chicken. Put the chicken in the pot along with the onion greens and some crumbled or shredded cheese. Stir, taste, add more salt if it needs it and possibly some water if it seems to dry but I think dry fillings are better. BEAN FILLING FOR 12 EMPANADAS 1 15. 5 oz (439g) can kidney or black beans 1 shallot 1 red chile 1/2 lb (227g) tomatillos 2-3 garlic cloves 1 lime 1 bunch fresh cilantro cheese (I used about 60g of cotija) oil salt pepper sugar Peel and chop the shallot and garlic and chop the chili. Peel the tomatillos and chop them coarsely. Cook all that in some hot oil in a wide pan, stirring frequently until you have the consistency of a jam or chutney. Drain and rinse the beans and add them to the pan. Zest in the lime and squeeze in half the juice to start with. Put in the cilantro. Grind in a bunch of pepper, crumble or shred in some cheese, and put in a pinch of sugar to balance all the acidity. Mash up a few of the beans to help bing the mixture together, stir and taste. Add more salt if it needs it.
Date: 2021-10-08

Comments and reviews: 10


Adam, use high saturated fats such as lard or butter and be generous with your water/stock. I usually go with 50% water of the total protein weigh but some people go 80%. Once you've finished cooking it just place it in your fridge. The saturated fats will solidify when they get cold. That way you get extra juicy empanadas. At least that's what the majority of people think it's a good empanada. North-west recipes at my country call for 1kg flank steak boiled for 3 hours then fried in lard with green onions and 500ml of water. They also make the dough with the stock that the flank steak creates
Frying empanadas helps with super juicy empanadas as the searing is more efficient and even.

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You guys. For anyone who sees this who intends on making these. These are great. But try making them like my grandmother and my wife. Look up how to make a cuban picadillo(its sacrilege if you skip the olives. Get an over ripened Spanish plantain and look up how to make plantano maduro. Stuff your empanadas with the picadillo and platano. Fry or air fry instead of bake. It'll change your life. I promise.
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Great video Adam, I suggest if you want to try something different try Venezuelan empanadas, which are totally different from these. Make the dough with corn flour instead of wheat (I recommend Harina PAN which you can find in US grocery stores now); fill them with big slices of mozzarella or a similar cheese and pan fry them. Super good
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In Manado, Indonesia, people also make Empanadas too (but they're just called Panadas. But theres some differences for example the dough is more fluffy, kinda like bread, and people usually deep fry it. Also the most common filling used is fish.
I would love to try this video's version. Never tried it in baked form.

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Adam, if you still have access to that Ooni pizza oven, try cooking empanadas at the temperature for Neapolitan pizza. They will be ready in around 5 minutes and their crust will have that white-dark brown pattern you found in traditional Argentinian empanadas (they are cooked in wood fire clay ovens)
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There's a regional variant of empanadas in the Philippines called Ilocos Empanadas where they stuff ground meat, cabbage and an egg into the bread and deep fry it (i say bread but the ones I had were pretty much more shell than bread. Greasy as hell but what I associate comfort food with
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Hey Adam! I'm Argentinian, and although I found it funny when you added the white wine at first, I remembered that in some provinces or counties (like San Juan, the actual recipe of the dough REQUIRES white wine. I've tried them, and they were absolutely delicious. Great video, as always!
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Something I learned from my neighborhood Argentinean empanada shop is that you traditionally would crimp the different types of filling using a different crimping pattern -- maybe 5 crimps is beef, 3 is leek and cheese, etc. Helps to not mix them up after they're baked.
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For me traditional empanadas are made with corn flour, with potato and flank stake filling, and deep fried in corn oil. And must be eaten with Aji (finely chopped tomato, green onion, and chilli suspended in a bit of vinegar and lime with salt.
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As a Dominican/Puerto Rican I d never dream of doing anything besides frying the dough. The dough develops bubbles that are crispy and crunchy and cling to an optional dipping sauce so well.
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