attosa
Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts Craving meat and cheese empanadas the other day, with no time or ingredients to make my own dough, I grabbed some ready made pizza dough. With leftover chicken, I made these in the toaster oven. So good!
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Yield: 12 empanadas
Ingredients:
- 1 lb pizza dough (I used Rhodes, they come in preformed mini balls)
- 2 cups chicken, cooked & chopped
- 1 small hot pepper
- 1 tomato
- 1 onion
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 Tbsp garlic salt
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 cup cilantro
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- flour for dusting
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp water
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400F Cover dough with plastic while making filling. Chop onion, tomato and pepper.
- Add oil to pan and heat to medium high heat. Cook onion, tomato and pepper until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Add garlic salt, cumin, chili powder, and oregano.
- Add cooked chicken and cilantro. Cook for a couple minutes. Remove from heat.
- Lightly flour work surface and roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
- Take a 5 or 6 inch round cookie cutter, glass or bowl, and cut the dough into circles.
- Flatten the disks gently with rolling pin.
- Sprinkle each disc with cheese and 2 Tbsp of the filling.
- Fold dough over in half to enclose filling.
- Seal the edges with a fork. Repeat on the rest of the empanadas.
- In a small bowl, mix together egg yolk and 1 tsp water to make an egg wash.
- Transfer empanadas to a baking sheet and brush the top sides with egg wash.
- Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
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Judy
Gold Post Medal for All Time! 677 Posts September 13, 20160 found this helpful
This is a great idea!
attosa
Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts September 13, 20160 found this helpful
Thanks Judy! It's become a favourite here :)
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