Anyone into making empanadas from scratch?

I did ground beef tonight. Filling was simply ground beef with sauteed onions and garlic, with some green bell peppers, flavored with cumin, coriander, salt and pepper, and a little fresh cilantro.

Dough was flour, butter, an egg, salt, a little white vinegar, and water to even out the consistency. Just mixed with the kitchen aide dough hook. Rolled it out using the kitchen aide pasta attachment.

Next time I'll post pics. What do you guys like to stuff your empanadas with?

One of my ex-GFs is American, but of 100% FOB Colombian parents, and I really like the Beef+Potato ones her mom makes and some Colombian restaurants serve. I don't have the recipe handy as I'm traveling, but google Colombian Beef Empanadas for ideas. Sometimes they're just Potato. Sometimes Beef and Potato. Sometimes Pork. And sometimes, at least traditionally, Beef and Pork and Potatoes in them.

My amazing wife of 17 years is from Argentina and she say it is the secret of love that make Empanadas soo special. They are.....

My grandma made them with pumpkin filling. I’ve also had them with pineapple filling that was quite tasty. I can’t say I’ve ever had any with other than fruit Type filling.

My wife is Puerto Rican and makes great pastelillos, as her family calls them. She adds ground olives and a bit of potato to the beef mixture. One of my favorite foods.

My ex-wife used to make them and use whatever she had in the refrigerator. Beef, Pork, Chicken or sometimes just vegetables. She would sometimes add potatoes along with nopalitos to the meat mixture as well as various types of mild peppers. They are one of my favorite foods as well

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Originally posted by MRMATT:
My wife is Puerto Rican and makes great pastelillos, as her family calls them. She adds ground olives and a bit of potato to the beef mixture. One of my favorite foods.

This recipe actually came from a cooking class that was Puerto Rican themed. So yes, these are modeled on pastelillos. I'll try potato next time.

In that class, they made these Pina Colodas that were the best I ever had. Not these sugary versions you get at the pool bar in Mexico.

Years ago a girl at work would bring a basket full of them every Friday. She was from Columbia and her live at home grand mother would make them. She would sell them for $1 each still warm out of the basket. My lord we’re they damn good and it was one terrible sad day when that girl got laid off.

Sold a car bike carrier tonight to a guy on facebook marketplace. He owns a Columbian restaurant and brought me cash and empanadas! Such a deal!

There's a small chain in DC called Julia's Empanadas. My favorite is their Chilean Style Beef empanada. Ingredients: ground and chopped beef, hard boiled egg, Kalamata olives, raisins, onions, and spices.

Typing those ingredients I realize that they sound like an odd combination, but it's sooo good!

JP

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Originally posted by MRMATT:
My wife is Puerto Rican and makes great pastelillos, as her family calls them. She adds ground olives and a bit of potato to the beef mixture. One of my favorite foods.

I miss Pastelles dearly. My mom when she lived here in Cali always had my aunts in Puerto Rico make a dozen and ship them in a styrofoam chest with dry ice just about every Xmas. Of course my mom is gone and my aunt in PR are to old to make them.
Will eat some if I go back next year.

Hopefully your wife makes you, Brown rice with red kidney beans and Maduros.

Yes. Not from scratch though, and I regret that. I used leftovers from Thanksgiving, and some veggies, onion, and garlic.