Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, beef empanadas. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Add ground beef, oregano, salt, cayenne pepper, and cumin to the onion mixture. Empanadas, or beef turnovers, are discs of pastry packed with meat. Some turnover recipes call for all manner of fillings, but this GOYA® Empanada recipe features a delicious tomato, onion, garlic and beef mixture.

Beef Empanadas is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Beef Empanadas is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook beef empanadas using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef Empanadas:

1. Get Empanada discos (rounds)
2. Get 1 lbs ground beef
3. Make ready Half a cup of raw diced green beans
4. Make ready 1 small onion diced
5. Take 3 cloves garlic minced
6. Get Packet Goya Sazon culantro y achiote
7. Prepare 2 Tablespoon Recaito
8. Get Half a teaspoon of oregano
9. Get Half a teaspoon of salt
10. Take Quarter teaspoon of pepper
11. Take Quarter teaspoon of garlic powder
12. Get Quarter teaspoon of crushed red chili flake
13. Make ready Tablespoon cornstarch and tablespoon of water mixed together
14. Make ready Oil for frying
15. Get Quarter cup of tomato sauce

Empanadas are a popular street food and fun to re-create in your own kitchen. These empanadas have a hearty beef and vegetable filling encased in tender cream cheese pastry crust. Traditionally empanadas are fried, but Lucinda prefers to make a healthy version by baking them. From the book "Mad Hungry," by Lucinda Scala Quinn (Artisan Books).

Instructions to make Beef Empanadas:

1. Defrost your Empanada rounds. Saute the onion, garlic, and green beans in olive oil for about 10 minutes. Add the ground beef until fully cooked. Add the rest of the seasonings and the tomato sauce. cook another 5 minutes. Once the beef mixture is cooked through and has thickened put it aside to cool for about 10 minutes.
2. Start preparing your Empanada rounds by flattening each one out with a rolling pin. Use about a tablespoon to 2 tablespoons of beef mixture and put it in the middle of the round. Fold the empanada round over the mixture to make a half moon, sealing everything inside. Mix together the cornstarch and water and use it as a glue to seal the empanadas. You can use a fork to seal the edges or simply pinch and twist the edges all the way around.
3. Fry each empanadas in hot oil for about 2 to 3 minutes per side. They will puff up so pay close attention.

Wrap dough around filling to form empanada, pressing edges together. Fold edge back and finish by pinching little pleats or crimping with a fork. These homemade beef empanadas are made with a delicious meat picadillo filling. The empanada filling is very simple and contains ground beef, onions, garlic, oregano, cumin, achiote (annatto), salt, and pepper. I have quite of few empanada recipes posted, but realized that I was missing a simple basic beef empanada recipe.

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