How Empanadas Are Made • Tasty

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Ground turkey is leaner, while ground pork is often less expensive.

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil offers a healthier fat option, while margarine can be more affordable.

green olives

🥗Healthier: capers

💰Cheaper: pickles

Capers provide a similar briny flavor, while pickles are often less costly.

hard-boiled eggs

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: none

Tofu can replace eggs for a vegetarian option.

Start by sautéing onions in a pan until soft.

Add ground beef to the pan and cook until browned.

Remove excess fat from the cooked beef and add butter; mix well.

Incorporate a blend of spices: salt, black pepper, oregano, paprika, and red peppers into the beef mixture.

Let the beef filling rest for a few minutes.

Spread the filling on a sheet pan and send it to the blast chiller to cool down.

Once cooled, mix in chopped green onions, green olives, and hard-boiled eggs into the beef filling.

For the veggie filling, cook spinach, diced carrots, and broccoli until soft and let them cool.

Sauté garlic and onions with a blend of spices, then let that mixture cool as well.

Chop the cooled spinach and broccoli, then mix it with the sautéed garlic and onions, diced carrots, green peas, corn, red peppers, feta, and parmesan cheese by hand.

To make the empanadas, use a custom hand-operated empanada mold to fold and seal the edges.

Place the dough into the mold, add the filling, and close the empanada using the machine.

The finished empanadas are placed on trays, each holding about 40 empanadas.

Send the trays off to cool and store overnight before baking.

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