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Recipe: Empanadas

Categories: Beef, Latin

Yield: 1 Servings

      1 lb Puff pastry
      2 lb Ground beef
    1/4 lb Bacon; chopped
      2    Onion soup
      1    Green bell pepper; chopped
    1/4 c  Raisins; soaked in warm
           -- water
      2 tb Chopped green olives
      1 tb Tomato paste
      1    Hard boiled egg; chopped
      1    Egg yolk; to glaze
           Tabasco sauce
           Salt and pepper; to taste
           Thyme

1. Chop onion along with bacon and cook in a frying pan just until the onion is translucent. Stirring often
2. Add th bell pepper and cook until almost soft. Stir in ground beef and cook over high heat until all red has disappeared.
3. Off the heat add the tomato paste, drained raisins, olives.
4. Season with salt and pepper, a few drops of Tabasco and a pinch of thyme.
5. Let cool completely.
6. Roll out puff pastry to 1/8 " thick and cut into rounds or squares, about 15".
7. Place filling in the center.Wet the border and fold them over,pressing to adhere.
8. Baste with the egg yolk, carefully not to run on th sides or the pastry won't puff.
9. Bake in a pre heated 425 F oven 25 minutes.

NOTES : Delicious savory pastries, may be served as a first course or if made smaller as appetizers. They are great ither at room temperature or hot.

Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Posted to bbq-digest by Lloyd <lloyd2@mindspring.com> on Nov 17, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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