Baked Beef and Chicken Empanatas
Baked Beef and Chicken Empanatas

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baked beef and chicken empanatas. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Empanadas are savory handheld pies of Latin descent. Similar to the American turnover, today's empanada dough is flaky, buttery and pastry-like. The most common fillings for empanadas is beef or chicken, but the possibilities are truly endless. This delicious, crispy, and tender Mediterranean-inspired finger food is easy to make!.

Baked Beef and Chicken Empanatas is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Baked Beef and Chicken Empanatas is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook baked beef and chicken empanatas using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Beef and Chicken Empanatas:
  1. Prepare 1 lb Ground beef
  2. Take 1 envelope Perdu Italian Chicken Slices (fully cooked)
  3. Prepare 2 tsp chili powder
  4. Get 2 tsp ground cumin
  5. Make ready 2 envelope sazon (goya)
  6. Get salt and pepper
  7. Get 1 can tomato paste
  8. Get 1 1/2 can diced tomato with green chilis
  9. Make ready 1 packages monterey jack
  10. Get 1 packages mild chedder
  11. Get 4 box pillsbury pie crust
  12. Make ready 2 eggs
  13. Make ready 1/8 can refried beans
  14. Prepare 1 medium onion, chopped
  15. Make ready all-purpose flour
  16. Make ready olive oil

Regardless of whether you want fried or baked, you will love this recipe! These beef empanadas are baked not fried and feature an easy-to-make ground beef filing. In this recipe we use premade empanada disks so they come together really quick. With step by step instructions, you'll be an expert in no-time.

Instructions to make Baked Beef and Chicken Empanatas:
  1. Pre-heat oven at 425. Roll out dough very thinly (not thin enough it will rip though) on flour. Use bowl to cut out disk. (I got 5 out of each pie crust)
  2. In sautee pan, cook finely chopped onions in light olive oil. After onions are soft and golden add 1 teaspoon of cumin and 1 teaspoon of chili powder. Add salt and pepper and one packet of sazon, and 1 can of diced tomatoes.
  3. Add ground beef and cook until done, add half of can tomato paste let sit and cool.
  4. In mixing bowl add remaining seasoning, shredded chicken, half a can of drained diced tomatoes, salt and pepper and remaining tomato paste
  5. Wisk egg in bowl and set next to work station with a brush
  6. Add 2 tablespoons of ground beef mixture to disk and add two tablespoons of Monterey jack. Add 2 tablespoons of chicken mixture and two tablespoons of mild cheddar.
  7. Use brush and lightly coat outside edge of full disk, fold in half. Take a fork and press around fold to hold crust together, then brush with egg wash on top only
  8. Line on cookie sheet (close together is okay, not much space is needed), pop in over until golden brown. (Roughly 15-20 minutes depending on your oven.)

In this recipe we use premade empanada disks so they come together really quick. With step by step instructions, you'll be an expert in no-time. Empanadas make great appetizers, and they're perfect for breakfast, brunch or as a mid-day snack. These baked chicken empanadas are quick and easy to make. Use diced rotisserie chicken and jarred salsa to speed things up.

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