Galician Stuffed Pastry - (Empanada Gallega) Recipe - Cooking Index
Galician Stuffed Pastry - (Empanada Gallega) Recipe - Cooking Index
| 5 cups | 312g / 11oz | Flour |
| 1/2 cup | 99g / 3.5oz | Butter |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Baking powder |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Salt |
| 1 cup | 237ml | Cold water |
| 2/3 cup | 131g / 4.6oz | Lard |
| 4 cups | 250g / 8.8oz | Onions - chopped (medium) |
| Salt and black pepper - to taste | ||
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Chorizo - (or pepperoni) sausage |
| 1 lb | 454g / 16oz | Pork |
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Cured ham |
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Veal |
| 1 | Saffron | |
| 1 | Hot chili pepper | |
| (or a pinch of cayenne pepper) | ||
| 1 | Egg yolk - (mixed with 1 tablespoon water | |
| And 1 stigma saffron) |
Put flour on a table or marble slab. Make a hole in the center for the baking powder, butter, salt, water, and eggs. Blend well with hands until it makes a cohesive mass which does not stick to the fingers. Let dough rest in a warm place in a bowl covered with a damp cloth while preparing the filling.
Heat lard. Fry onion very slowly in large, covered frying pan. Before onion takes on color, add chorizo (or pepperoni), skinned and cut in slices; pork, ham, and veal in small cubes; minced chili pepper, and a pinch of saffron previously ground in a mortar or bowl. Season mixture with salt and ground black pepper. Cover it and cook slowly about 45 minutes or until all meat is tender.
Preheat oven to 450F.
Divide dough in two and roll each part out on lightly floured surface. Lift one piece of rolled dough carefully onto greased baking sheet. Put all the filling on it except for 2 tablespoons of the liquid which should be reserved for later use.
Leave a 1/2-inch margin around the edges of the dough. Lift the second piece over the filling, seal by pressing edges together, and brush top of pastry with an egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon cold water and a stigma of crushed saffron. Make an air hole the thickness of a pencil in the middle of the dough. Bake pastry approximately 15 minutes in a 450F oven. When it is browned, remove it, and pour through the air hole the 2 tablespoons of liquid reserved.
Source:
Barbara Norman
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