Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, tuna empanadas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Tuna Empanadas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Tuna Empanadas is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have tuna empanadas using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna Empanadas:
- Make ready Crust
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour and 1 cup or more for dusting and kneading
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter cut into cubes (chilled)
- Make ready 3/4 cup margarine or vegetable shortening
- Take 1/2 cup cold water
- Make ready Filling
- Prepare I use 4 canned flavored canned tuna such as afritada 175gms and drained
- Make ready 1 cup cheddar cheese cut into strips
- Make ready You can use other fillings you like cooked ham, chicken fillet, ground pork or beef or even fruits!
These Tuna Empanadas are made with Chunk Light Tuna, spices, tomatoes and cheese. Just spoon the mixture into sections of a pie crust, fold and seal, then bake until golden brown. These Tuna Empanadas remind me of those hot summer days on the beach in my hometown of Tampico. Along come memories of the roaming food vendors selling all sorts of tasty seafood fare, and the visitors that spent hours under the "palapas" (palm roofs), enjoying the ocean breeze.
Steps to make Tuna Empanadas:
- Crust. Mix the flour and salt together in a large bowl. Add the butter and shortening.
- Measure 1/2 cup (120ml) of water in a cup. Add ice. Stir it around. From that, measure 1/2 cup (120ml) of water– since the ice has melted a bit. Drizzle the cold water in, 1 Tablespoon (15ml) at a time, and stir with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon after every Tablespoon (15ml) added. Do not add any more water than you need to. Stop adding water when the dough begins to form large clumps.
- Transfer the pie dough to a floured work surface. The dough should come together easily and should not feel overly sticky. Using floured hands, fold the dough into itself until the flour is fully incorporated into the fats. Form it into a ball. Divide dough in half. Flatten each half into 1-inch thick discs using your hands.
- Wrap each tightly in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- When rolling out the chilled pie dough discs to use in your pie, always use gentle force with your rolling pin. Start from the center of the disc and work your way out in all directions, turning the dough with your hands as you go. Visible specks of butter and fat in the dough are perfectly normal and expected!
- Form small discs about 5 inches in diameter and at least.25 inch thick or your desired thickness.
- Fill your pie with the tuna filling about 3 tablespoons of the tuna on one side of your crust then add cheese. Then fold sealing the sides using fork.
- I bake my empanadas rather than frying. At 350 degrees for 10 mins in the oven.
Heat oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add tomatoes, pepper, onion, and garlic; sprinkle with salt and pepper and sauté until vegetables are soft, stirring often. These tuna empanadas taste amazing whether they are warm or cold! I made two batches in one day and they were gone shortly after I took photos of them! Well, to be perfectly honest I shoveled half of them into my mouth the minute they were cooled down a bit, so no wonder there.
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