Empanadas, Worldly Hand Pies
 
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • Empanada recipe card
Instructions
  1. Prepare the filling:
  2. Heat the olive oil. Saute onion, ginger garlic until fragrant.
  3. Add in the potatoes and spices. Splash some water then cover with lid to let the potatoes cook. Add in the scrambled egg and combine well. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Prepare the crust:
  5. Take 1 ½ cups of flour and mix with egg, salt, pepper and enough water to form soft dough.
  6. Divide into 8 balls.Mix the remaining cup of flour with shortening and form smaller balls.
  7. Flatten the bigger ball and insert the smaller shortening ball and enclose fully. Roll the dough into rectangle and using a knife, cut a slit in the middle.
  8. Roll the dough all the way from bottom to top then come all the way down. Then cut into 2. Roll each halved ball into a circle and spoon some filling.
  9. Join edges together and crimp using fork.
  10. Brush top with egg wash.
  11. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180C /350F until golden brown.
Recipe by WithASpin at https://withaspin.com/2013/07/13/empanadas-guest-post/