How to Fold Empanadas

ground meat

🥗Healthier: lean ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground beef

Turkey is lower in fat, while beef is often more affordable.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier, while margarine can be cheaper.

Blitz chorizo into a paste using a stick blender.

Heat oil in a large non-stick pan over high heat. Cook onion and garlic for 2 minutes.

Add chorizo and cook for 2 minutes. Add beef and cook until no longer raw. Add tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Stir in remaining ingredients except green onion and simmer gently for 15 minutes.

Stir through green onion and cool filling completely before using (~2 hours).

Whisk milk and yolk. Pulse flour, salt, and butter in a food processor until fine crumbs. Add egg-milk mixture and blitz until it forms a ball of dough.

Chill dough for 30 minutes. Roll out and cut into rounds.

Preheat oven to 220°C/425°F. Place filling on one half of the pastry round, leaving a border. Brush edges with egg white, fold, and seal.

Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

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