Empanadas Argentinas de Carne

Name: Empanadas Argentinas de Carne
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 400g plain flour; 100g lard or butter; 1 tsp salt; 150ml warm water; 400g beef mince; 1 white onion, diced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 2 hard-boiled eggs, diced; 50g green olives, sliced; 50g raisins; 2 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp smoked paprika; 1 tsp chilli flakes; 1 egg yolk for glazing

Argentine beef empanadas with hard-boiled egg, olives and raisins baked until golden. Cooling the beef filling completely before it goes into the pastry stops the dough turning soft and difficult to seal.

Total time

70 min

Prep

45 min

Cook

25 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Mexican

Ingredients

400gplain flour

100glard or butter

1 tspsalt

150mlwarm water

400gbeef mince

1white onion, diced

2 clovesgarlic, minced

2hard-boiled eggs, diced

50ggreen olives, sliced

50graisins

2 tspground cumin

1 tspsmoked paprika

1 tspchilli flakes

1egg yolk for glazing

Instructions

Make pastry by rubbing lard into flour and salt, add water to form smooth dough.

Rest 30 minutes.

Cook onion in oil, add garlic, beef, cumin, paprika and chilli.

Cook until dry, cool completely.

Fold in eggs, olives and raisins.

Roll pastry thin, cut into 15cm circles.

Fill, fold and crimp edges, brush with egg yolk and bake at 200C for 20 minutes until golden.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

734

Protein

40.5g

Fat

23.1g

Carbs

91.2g

Fiber

4.6g

Sodium

777mg

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