Argentinian Recipes. Empanada Recipe and Milenesas

beef

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is leaner while pork is often less expensive.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil provides healthy fats and margarine is often cheaper.

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: cream cheese

Nutritional yeast is dairy-free and adds a cheesy flavor.

black olives

🥗Healthier: green olives

💰Cheaper: capers

Green olives are lower in calories and capers are often less costly.

Boil water and melt lard in it.

Mix flour, salt, water, and egg to form a dry dough.

Wrap the dough and refrigerate to rest.

Slice sirloin steak into 1 cm chunks.

Heat a pan and brown the steak without cooking through.

Remove steak from the pan.

Fry sliced onions in vegetable shortening until translucent.

Add paprika, cumin, salt, and pepper to the onions and stir.

Mix cooked onions, browned steak, green olives, and currants together.

Chop and add green onions to the mixture.

Optionally, add slices of cooked egg to the mixture.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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Dietary

Allergens