Picadillo for Empanadas. Continue until all of the dough. Our empanada recipe uses refrigerated pie dough rather than the traditional homemade pastry. Be sure to let the pie dough come to room temperature.

Picadillo for Empanadas This makes more than enough picadillo to fill the empanadas. The leftovers can be used for making Papas Rellenas, served over. Picadillo is a dish from Spain.

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, picadillo for empanadas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Continue until all of the dough. Our empanada recipe uses refrigerated pie dough rather than the traditional homemade pastry. Be sure to let the pie dough come to room temperature.

Picadillo for Empanadas is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It's easy, it's quick, it tastes yummy. Picadillo for Empanadas is something which I have loved my whole life. They're nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook picadillo for empanadas using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Picadillo for Empanadas:

{Make ready 1 pound of ground beef (80/20 or 70/30 is fine - I wouldn't go much leaner than that).
{Prepare 1/2 cup of finely chopped onion (the fine chop is important because you don't want large pieces tearing your pastry).
{Take 1/2 cup of finely chopped bell pepper (you can use any color, but I like the red or orange because they're sweeter and look prettier in the filling).
{Make ready 2 Tablespoons of minced garlic (3 to 4 medium cloves).
{Get 1/4 cup of raisins.
{Make ready 8 of green pitted olives, cut in thirds.
{Take 3 oz. of tomato paste (basically half of one of those small cans).
{Take 1 teaspoon of salt.
{Get 1 teaspoon of cumin.
{Make ready 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper.
{Take 1 of bay leaf (or 1/2 teaspoon crushed bay).
{Get of neutral oil.

It contains highly seasoned, slightly sweetened, ground fried meat. The picadillo is then used in empanadas or papa rellenos. Puerto Rican Picadillo: beef hash seasoned with sofrito. Great with rice, or as a filling for empanadas, papas rellenos and tacos!

Instructions to make Picadillo for Empanadas:

In a 10 or 12 inch pot or pan, sweat the onions, peppers and garlic in 1 Tablespoon of oil over medium low heat until the onions are translucent. This should take 3 to 4 minutes. (Sweating them requires a lower heat than saute, but this results in sweeter and softer vegetables which will also yield better to the dough. Plus the garlic won't burn even if you throw it in at the same time as the onions and peppers.).
Push the refrito to the side of the pan and add 1 Tablespoon of oil to the center. Give the oil about 10 seconds to heat up and then add your tomato paste right on top of it (this will caramelize the tomato and give it sweetness and depth), along with the cumin, black pepper, bay leaf and salt..
Stir to incorporate all the ingredients in the pan, and add the ground beef, spreading it evenly over the surface area of the pan. Because you're simmering the beef at a lower heat, you'll find that you don't have to constantly break up the beef as usually needed when cooking at high heat. Other than a light sizzle right when the meat hits the pan, it shouldn't be sizzling and/or actively bubbling. If it is, turn the heat down a touch..
Simmer the ground beef for 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then stir in raisins and simmer another 1 or 2 minutes. (I like to add the raisins toward the end so they can retain their shape and texture. Also, if olives are your thing, this is where you'd add them.).
At the end, you'll see your picadillo swimming in a little puddle of fat. I drain the fat by pushing all the picadillo over to one side of the pan and resting that side on the burner so the fat can drain to the lower part of the pan. In about 10 minutes, most of the fat should be drained, and you haven't dirtied another dish in the process..

Chicken Empanada is a well loved recipe. Empanada can be fried or baked. This chicken empanada recipe is involves baking because it gives the crust more flaky texture. Place empanadas on prepared baking sheet; brush with egg and make a small slit on top of each. My husband always tells me he doesn't like empanadas with savory fillings.

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