Description
My family loves these juicy meat pies with raisins, chopped olives, and hard-boiled eggs. This recipe is always a hit.
Ingredients
- ½ pound ground beef
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
- 14 pitted green olives, such as Manzanilla, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons raisins
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 (17.5 ounce) packages frozen puff pastry (each with 2 sheets), thawed
- 1 raw egg, lightly beaten
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cook beef in a large
- heavy skillet over medium-high heat
- stirring and breaking up lumps
- until no longer pink
- 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer beef to a small bowl with a slotted spoon
- and pour off grease from the skillet. Melt butter in the skillet and saute onions and green onion
- stirring occasionally
- until tender
- about 5 minutes. Return beef to skillet and stir in hard-boiled eggs
- olives
- raisins
- cumin
- salt
- and pepper. Transfer mixture to a shallow bowl and chill until cooled
- 10 to 20 minutes.
- Unfold one pastry sheet
- keeping remaining sheets chilled
- onto a lightly floured surface
- dust lightly with flour
- and roll out into a 12-inch square. Cut four 5 1/2-inch rounds from pastry. Brush a 1/2-inch border around the edges of one round with water
- using a small brush or fingertip. Spoon about 3 tablespoons of filling onto half of the round. Fold other half over filling and press edges together firmly. Crimp edges with a fork and transfer to one of the prepared baking sheets. Repeat with three remaining rounds. Form 12 more empanadas in the same manner with remaining pastry and filling
- arranging them about 1 1/2 inches apart on baking sheets.
- Brush tops of empanadas with beaten egg. Bake in the preheated oven
- switching position of sheets halfway through
- until golden brown
- about 15 minutes.
Prep Time: 1 hr
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 8