Empanada (Meat Pie)

Recipe Ingredients

1 lb	454g / 16oz	Ground beef
2		Garlic cloves - minced
2		Hard boiled eggs
		Cold - chopped
1/4 cup	59ml	Milk
		Salt and black pepper
		Raisins - to taste
		Green olives - chopped
1		Crushed red pepper
		Cooking oil
1		Onion - chopped (large)
		Pastry dough

Recipe Instructions

Fry onions in cooking oil until soft. Add minced garlic and brown lightly. Drain oil. Add ground beef to onions and saute until meat turns a light brown.

Add chopped olives, eggs, salt and black pepper, raisins, pinch of red pepper and milk. Allow to simmer (uncovered) over low heat for 5 minutes.

PASTRY DOUGH: Any good grade of commercial pie crust mix will give satisfactory results -or- use your own favorite recipe.

Roll out dough 1/8" thickness and cut with a 5" cutter. Place meat filling on one side of the dough. Fold the other side over the filling and pinch the edges.

Deep fry in hot cooking oil until crisp and brown or bake in a 400F oven until the crust is a golden brown.

Yields 5 meat pies.

Source:
Rums of Puerto Rico

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