Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, picadillo for empanadas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Heat the oil in a heavy saute pan over medium-high heat. I loved the mixture of tastes all in a neat package - and it was easy to make and double the recipe. I have two more dinners sitting in the freezer!.
Picadillo for Empanadas is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Picadillo for Empanadas is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have picadillo for empanadas using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Picadillo for Empanadas:
- Make ready ground beef (80/20 or 70/30 is fine - I wouldn't go much leaner than that)
- Take finely chopped onion (the fine chop is important because you don't want large pieces tearing your pastry)
- Make ready finely chopped bell pepper (you can use any color, but I like the red or orange because they're sweeter and look prettier in the filling)
- Prepare minced garlic (3 to 4 medium cloves)
- Get raisins
- Make ready green pitted olives, cut in thirds
- Prepare tomato paste (basically half of one of those small cans)
- Make ready salt
- Make ready cumin
- Take black pepper
- Take bay leaf (or 1/2 teaspoon crushed bay)
- Make ready neutral oil
It contains highly seasoned, slightly sweetened, ground fried meat. In addition to making an excellent stuffing for these little turnovers, you also can use picadillo to stuff chiles for baking, to fill tacos, or to simply serve alongside rice and beans. You can make the dough recipe a few […] This makes more than enough picadillo to fill the empanadas. The leftovers can be used for making Papas Rellenas, served over rice or frozen for your next batch of empanadas.
Instructions to make Picadillo for Empanadas:
- In a 10 or 12 inch pot or pan, sweat the onions, peppers and garlic in 1 Tablespoon of oil over medium low heat until the onions are translucent. This should take 3 to 4 minutes. (Sweating them requires a lower heat than saute, but this results in sweeter and softer vegetables which will also yield better to the dough. Plus the garlic won't burn even if you throw it in at the same time as the onions and peppers.)
- Push the refrito to the side of the pan and add 1 Tablespoon of oil to the center. Give the oil about 10 seconds to heat up and then add your tomato paste right on top of it (this will caramelize the tomato and give it sweetness and depth), along with the cumin, black pepper, bay leaf and salt.
- Stir to incorporate all the ingredients in the pan, and add the ground beef, spreading it evenly over the surface area of the pan. Because you're simmering the beef at a lower heat, you'll find that you don't have to constantly break up the beef as usually needed when cooking at high heat. Other than a light sizzle right when the meat hits the pan, it shouldn't be sizzling and/or actively bubbling. If it is, turn the heat down a touch.
- Simmer the ground beef for 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then stir in raisins and simmer another 1 or 2 minutes. (I like to add the raisins toward the end so they can retain their shape and texture. Also, if olives are your thing, this is where you'd add them.)
- At the end, you'll see your picadillo swimming in a little puddle of fat. I drain the fat by pushing all the picadillo over to one side of the pan and resting that side on the burner so the fat can drain to the lower part of the pan. In about 10 minutes, most of the fat should be drained, and you haven't dirtied another dish in the process.
Brush the edges of the round with the beaten egg. Fold a side of the circle over the filling across the other side. These homemade beef empanadas are made with a delicious meat picadillo filling. The empanada filling is very simple and contains ground beef, onions, garlic, oregano, cumin, achiote (annatto), salt, and pepper. I have quite of few empanada recipes posted, but realized that I was missing a simple basic beef empanada recipe.
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