Patri of the blog, Asi SonLos Cosas, was our September 2012 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she decided to
tempt us with one of her family’s favorite recipes for Empanadas! We were given
two dough recipes to choose from and encouraged to fill our Empanadas as
creatively as we wished!
Empanada (or empada, in Portuguese) is a stuffed bread or pastry baked
or fried in many countries in Western Europe, Latin America, and parts of
Southeast Asia. The name comes from the Galician, Portuguese and Spanish
verb empanar, meaning to wrap or coat
in bread.The filling for empanada can vary, meat, chicken, cheese,
fruit and vegetables. It is really up to your taste and preference and there is
plenty of room for creativity. It can be served warm or cold. I chose to make individual sized empanadas instead of
one big one and I used ground meat filling with some slight
differences.
