Posted on 04/08/2017 4:57:27 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
April 8 recognizes a food holiday, National Empanada Day. Empanadas are a stuffed bread or pastry that is baked or fried. The name empanada comes from the Galician, Portuguese and Spanish verb em pandar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread.
Empanadas are made by folding the dough or bread around a seasoned stuffing. The filling usually is made from meat, cheese, vegetables or fruits but may be made with other ingredients.
A cookbook published in 1520 in Catalan, the Libre del Coch by Ruperto de Nola, mentions empanadas filled with seafood.
In the Southern and Southwestern United States, empanadas are called Creoles. They are a half-circle flaky crust filled with seasoned pork, beef or chicken and cheese.
In the Southeastern United States, empanadas are referred to as a “fried pie” and are a pastry filled with fresh or reconstituted dry fruit such as apples, apricots, peaches or sweet potatoes and then fried. In New Mexico, it is a winter tradition to make sweetmeat empanadas for Christmas.
They are made with ground pork, sugar, pinon nuts, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, sealed in a tortilla-like dough and then deep fried in lard.
(recipes at link)
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My two favs are meat and guava.
Very cute. I see pierogis though. Have made plenty of them and discovered this year the easiest way is to use wonton wrappers instead of making a heavy dough. They turn out great plus they are thin and the ends are crispy. You don’t need to parboil them first. I had been thinking of trying empanadas and then saw this thread.
Interesting.
Btw I am not missing survivor at all this season.
except these are fried...
then there not pierogies then...Wonton wrappers?...my Polish grandmother would roll over in her grave...
Me neither.
Cinco de Mayo. Fake Mexican holiday invented in America is the perfect time for fake Mexican food invented in America.
My polish mother is probably dancing in hers.
The indigenous cuisine of Southern California.
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