Sweet Potato Empanadas

Name: Sweet Potato Empanadas
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Spanish, European
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp brown sugar; 59 milliliters butter, melted; 59 milliliters cream cheese, softened; 1 tube refrigerated ready-made crescent rolls (uncooked dough); 79 milliliters granulated sugar; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 16 servings Kosher salt; 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice; 177 milliliters plain yogurt; 118 milliliters sweet potatoes, mashed or pureed

Sweet Potato Empanadas requires about 25 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 16 servings with 117 calories, 1g of protein, and 8g of fat each. A mixture of ready-made crescent rolls, kosher salt, cream cheese, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. A couple people really liked this European dish.

Instructions

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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

In a small bowl, mash the sweet potatoes with a fork, and mix in the cream cheese, brown sugar if using, lemon juice, and pinch of salt until creamy.

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Sweet Potato

Cream Cheese

Brown Sugar

Lemon Juice

Salt

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Bowl

Remove the dough from the tube and separate into 4 rectangles. Working with 1 rectangle at a time, roll over the perforated lines in the dough to seal together.

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Dough

Roll

Cut the rectangle in half and then cut the halves into 2 triangles.

Place a heaping teaspoon of sweet potato filling in the center of each of 4 triangles. Fold the dough over on each, as if you were making ravioli, and pinch the edges together.

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Sweet Potato

Ravioli

Dough

Continue making little triangle empanadas with the rest of the dough, 16 total.

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Dough

Place the triangles on a parchment-lined baking sheet and into the preheated oven.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Bake the empanadas until golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Meanwhile, in a shallow bowl, mix together the sugar, cinnamon, and pinch of salt. While still warm, brush the empanadas with melted butter, and then gently toss in the cinnamon-sugar mixture.

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Cinnamon