Mini Chicken Empanadas

Name: Mini Chicken Empanadas
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Spanish, European
Ingredients: 75 grams shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese; 140 grams finely chopped cooked chicken; 3 Tbsps cream cheese, softened; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 2 teaspoons chopped seeded jalapeno pepper; 0 teaspoons pepper; 400 grams package refrigerated pie pastry; 4 teaspoons chopped sweet red pepper; 1 teaspoons salt

Mini Chicken Empanadas is a hor d'oeuvre that serves 30. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 84 calories, 3g of protein, and 5g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. This recipe is typical of European cuisine. If you have colby-monterey jack cheese, pepper, cream cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

In a small bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. On a lightly floured surface, roll each pastry sheet into a 15-inch circle.

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Cut with a floured 3-in. round biscuit cutter.

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Place about 1 teaspoon filling on one half of each circle. Moisten pastry edges with water. Fold pastry over filling. Press edges with a fork to seal.

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Transfer to greased baking sheets.

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Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

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Remove to wire racks.

Serve warm.

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Ingredients

Servings:

75grams

shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese 140grams

finely chopped cooked chicken 3Tbsps

cream cheese, softened 1teaspoon

ground cumin 2teaspoons

chopped seeded jalapeno pepper 0teaspoons

pepper 400grams

package refrigerated pie pastry 4teaspoons

chopped sweet red pepper 1teaspoons

salt

Recommended wine: Sparkling Wine, Sparkling Rose

Sparkling Wine and Sparkling rosé are my top picks for Antipasti. If you're serving a selection of appetizers, you can't go wrong with these. Both are very food friendly and complement a variety of flavors. One wine you could try is Taittinger Taittinger Collection by Sebastiao Salgado. It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 320 dollars.

Taittinger Taittinger Collection by Sebastiao Salgado

Beautifully intense floral aromas, with traces of honeysuckle,generous raisins, hot, honeyed fruits and greengage plums. Fresh, unctuous and supple flavors help the wine's balance andrichness.Made from selected Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes grown in the finest microclimates in Champagne. Chardonnay is harvested from Grand Cru of Côte des Blancs and Pinot Noir comes from Grand Crus of Montagne de Reims and edge of Vallée de la Marne.Following harvest, grapes are pressed immediately in press houses in the vineyards. First pressing is only juice used for this wine. Blending is after primary fermentation, final cuvée completes secondary fermentation in bottle in Taittinger's cool cellars.About Sebastião SalgadoSebastião Salgado was born in 1944 in Aimorés, Brazil. Growing up in a family of eight children on his parents' farm, he became fascinated by the natural world around him, from taking walks in the forest, looking from the hilltops and listening to the trainsthat transported the local minerals. After studying economics in school, Sebastião decided to change careers and become a photographer, focusing on his love of nature. Sebastião Salgado’s photographs express human and environmental tragedies, and yethe always manages to find extraordinary beauty, thereby offering a glimmer of hope. His work focuses on the biodiversity of the planet, highlighting that which has not been transformed by human beings. The photograph chosen for Taittinger Collection is a statement of what is most universal and original: Life, simple and peaceful.