Help needed to clone Mexican or Mexican-style spicy beef empanaditas using cornmeal dough.

[florisandy]

I had my first empanadas over the river and down the street where I used to live in Philly a few years ago. They were really good and spicy. Now I can't remember if they were fried or baked but I would prefer baked so that I can freeze them (don't want to eat them all at once!). See below for description. They were just SO good!

I tried making a similar recipe two or three years ago with a recipe I found online, but the dough was just not workable and the filling, lackluster.

I also have a good looking Argentinian recipe in mind but it uses hard boiled eggs and I'm not so sure they'll freeze well.

Thanks in advance.

Girl from Empanada wannabe

Johnny Manana's Empanaditas

http://johnnymananas.net/wp-content/gallery/menus/dinnermenu2.jpg

 

[melissa-dallas]

Sandy-here is a good link for making the dough and the process

These are just cheese filled. You can do a search for picadillo to find a meat filling recipe. I think these (the masa ones) really should be fried, but you can freeze the uncooked ones so you don't have to eat them all at once. Also, they are not masa/corn but Goya makes frozen empanada dough called discos and they are really good and make this a very easy process. Each dough round is separated by a sheet of plastic and they are easy to handle and cook up perfectly crispy. I really like them. My mom has evened used them to make fruit turnovers and they come in several varieties.

http://www.squidoo.com/mexican-empanadas

 

[angak]

Smittenkitchen hads 2 empanada recipes, one with beef and one with chicken. not cornmeal though.

might be helpful anyway. PS, your link doesn't work.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/03/beef-empanadas/

 

[kendall]

I'm confused here, because I've never had empanadas made with corn flour

I've made them and had them in restaurants, and I've never heard of them made with corn flour, because it's hard to work with like that, and the reason tamales are steamed, and corn chips, tostada and taco shells are deap fried, never baked.

 

[florisandy]

I wanted an authentic dough recipe and you've found one with

technique! Muchas gracias!

 

[florisandy]

Thanks Ang. I'm considering the beef filling sans raisins. See the image link.

 

[florisandy]

I'm going to give it a shot with the masa harina and deep fry them. The ones I had

at Johnny Manana's probably were deep fried and that's why they tasted so good.