Beef Empanadas

Name: Beef Empanadas
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Spanish, European
Ingredients: 1 bay leaf; 2 Tbsps butter or margarine; 340 grams ground chuck; 118 milliliters chopped onion; 0 teaspoons pepper; 1 teaspoon salt; 30 servings Sweet Potato Pastry; 3 mediums tomatoes, peeled and chopped; 30 servings Vegetable oil

Beef Empanadas is a gluten free recipe with 30 servings. One serving contains 160 calories, 2g of protein, and 17g of fat. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have bay leaf, butter, ground chuck, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. It is a very budget friendly recipe for fans of European food.

Instructions

Press tomatoes through a sieve. Set tomato pure aside.

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Tomato

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Sieve

Saut onion in butter in a heavy skillet over low heat until tender.

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Butter

Onion

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Frying Pan

Add meat, salt, pepper, and bay leaf; cook over medium heat until meat is browned, stirring to crumble.

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Bay Leaves

Pepper

Meat

Salt

Drain off pan drippings.

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Frying Pan

Add tomato pure to meat mixture; cook, uncovered, over low heat 35 minutes,

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Tomato

Meat

Remove from heat, and discard bay leaf.

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Bay Leaves

Roll pastry to 1/8-inch thickness on a sheet of plastic wrap; cut with a 3 1/2-inch biscuit cutter.

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Biscuits

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Place 1 teaspoon meat mixture in center of each circle. Moisten edges of pastry with water. Fold pastry in half. Press edges together with fork tines to seal.

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Water