Chicken Empanada Recipe?!
Chicken Empanada Recipe?
I just bought some Chicken Empanada's from Safeway and they had Chicken, Various Peppers and Mozzarella and Monteray Jack Cheese in them. Anyone have a good recipe for something similar? I could just add those ingredients to a recipe for Empanada dough I find on the internet, but I can only find recipe's for potato or dessert empanada's and I don't know if those have the same type of dough.
Answers:
1/4 Tbls. Butter
2 Cups Flour
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Salt
2 Medium Egg Yolk
1/4 Cup Cold Water
1 Tbls. Olive Oil
1 Cup Chicken -- diced
4 Small Scallions -- chopped
2 Tbls. Butter -- chopped
8 Oz. Mushrooms -- chopped
8 Oz green peppers -- chopped
8 Oz red peppers -- chopped
1 Cup Bechamel Sauce
1 Tbls. each Mozzarella and Monteray Jack Cheese
Combine butter, flour, baking powder, salt in food processor. Beat egg yolks and pour half into the flour mixture.
Add water slowly into flour until it becomes a semifirm mass. Shape dough into 2 balls, wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Saute chicken, mushrooms, peppers, and scallions in butter for 4 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in remaining ingredients. Allow to cool to room temp.
Roll out dough to 1/8 inch thick sheet. Then cut out circles with a 4-5 inch diameter. Place 1 tablespoon of meat mixture into center of dough round. Moisten the exposed edge with tap water and fold in half, crimping the edges together.
Brush the top of the uncooked empanada with the remaining egg wash. Place on baking sheet in 375 degree F. oven for 20 minutes until golden brown.