How to make Colombia Empanadas with ground beef my version/Colombian Empanadas recipe/easy empanada

corn flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: all-purpose flour

Whole wheat flour adds fiber and nutrients.

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground pork

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

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: cream cheese

Nutritional yeast adds flavor without dairy.

Add 1 tablespoon of oil in a pot and then add 1 kilogram of ground beef, stir and let brown for a little.

Add garlic, black pepper, salt, onion powder, and complete seasoning to the ground beef and stir.

Chop scallion, onion, thyme, and garlic finely, then stir that into the beef mixture and allow to cook for about 5 minutes.

Add soy sauce, ketchup, 1/2 cup of water, and 1/4 cup of breadcrumbs to the beef mixture and allow to simmer for another 5 minutes.

Boil 2 medium-sized potatoes until tender, then crush them to combine with the meat for the filling.

For the dough, mix cornmeal, a Maggie cube, salt, and yellow food coloring together.

Add 2 cups of warm water to the dry ingredients and mix until it becomes a dough.

Set the dough aside for 20 minutes to rest.

Take small portions of the dough, form them into balls, and place them between two pieces of plastic.

Use a rolling pin or a baking pan to flatten the dough balls.

Add 1 tablespoon of the meat mixture in the middle of each flattened dough.

Fold the dough over the filling and seal the edges using a bowl.

Heat 4 cups of oil in a pot until hot.

Fry the empanadas one or two at a time for 2 minutes on each side.

Remove the empanadas from the oil and place them on a plate lined with paper towels.

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