Barriehie
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Thank you! These came out quite good and I will certainly make again.Wow! Congratulations! Looks like you've nailed that one perfectly
Recipe Empanada dough (from Venezuela)
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Barriehie
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Made chicken ones this time around and added a liberal amount of ground chipotle chili's
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the "classic" chicken filling in Venezuela would be shredded chicken cooked with onions, garlic and a sweet chile called ají dulce. you could use a bit of red bell pepper.
Barriehie
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This was leaning more towards a chicken pie filling with mushrooms and some leftover rice tossed in.
Good thing about empanadas is - you can put anything in them!
Barriehie
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I even fried 2 like tortillas for cheese and avocado snacks.
Just to give you an idea of what a "typical" Venezuelan empanada is filled with. The most popular fillings are:
1) white cheese 2) minced beef, spiced up with onion, peppers, tomatoes etc. 3) chicken, spiced up the same 4) baby shark/dogfish, spiced up with all the above 5) domino - white cheese and black beans.
Again, you can fill them with what ever takes your fancy.
Back in the Covid year, there were a couple of empanada "festivals", where local chefs, dignitaries, social media stars, journalists, etc. were invited to invent their own filling.I remember mozzarella with grilled veg, chop suey style veg, artichokes and bacon, sardines and tomatoes, black pudding (blood sausage) with apples... the list was endless.
1) white cheese 2) minced beef, spiced up with onion, peppers, tomatoes etc. 3) chicken, spiced up the same 4) baby shark/dogfish, spiced up with all the above 5) domino - white cheese and black beans.
Again, you can fill them with what ever takes your fancy.
Back in the Covid year, there were a couple of empanada "festivals", where local chefs, dignitaries, social media stars, journalists, etc. were invited to invent their own filling.I remember mozzarella with grilled veg, chop suey style veg, artichokes and bacon, sardines and tomatoes, black pudding (blood sausage) with apples... the list was endless.
Barriehie
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Thank you! I just made some black beans the other day and always have white cheese on hand so I see a domino on the horizon.