Ingredients:
Ingredients: 20-22 empanadas
Empanada dough
- 3 3/4 c AP flour
- 12 tbsp cold butter
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups cold water
Ground Beef Stuffing:
- 2 lbs lean ground beef
- 2 small bell peppers (chopped)
- 1 Anaheim pepper (chopped)
- 1 small onion (chopped)
- 4 minced garlic cloves
- 2 tsp Mexican oregano
- 2 tsp thyme
- 2 tsp parsley
- 2 tsp basil
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1-2 tsp crushed red pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp salt
- melting cheese – to taste
Preparation:
- Cook the peppers on medium-high heat for 5 min.
- Add the onion and cook for another 2 min.
- Add the meat
- Add the minced garlic
- Add all spices
- Break the meat and mix everything
- Cook for 8 minutes
- Add more salt if needed
- Turn the heat off, cover it and set it aside to cool down.
- In a large bowl add the flour
- Add the sugar
- Add the salt and mix
- Add the butter (it should be cold)
- Mix everything together really well
- Add 1 1/4 cup cold water
- Knead until the dough does not stick to your hands.