4 1/2 cup's flour
1/2 cup shortning
1 1/2 TBSP Salt
1 cup water.
Filling
Ground beef
Taco seasoning
1/4 onion copped
Grated cheese
2 tsp oil
Egg Wash:
1 egg
1TBSP water
Start by making the dough, mix salt, and flour then add shorting until crumbly, then add water one table spoon at a time until the dough is mixed into a nice ball. Then put in saran wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
Filling: put 2 tsp of oil in a skillet. Add the onions and let brown for a few minutes, then crumble ground beef into pan. stir until browned. Add Taco seasoning, and put in the fridge.
After an hour of the dough cooling take it out put flour on counter, and roll out the dough. Use a round cookie cutter to cut circles, I flattened them out after I cut the circles a little more too. Then put the meet and cheese in the middle and use the egg wash, and put a little all around the edges, then fold the dough in half over the empanada. secure with fingers pinching all openings closed. Then you can either bake them or deep fry them. But I baked. So the oven needs to be at 350 and then put egg wash on top of the empanada's and bake for 12- 15 mins! Delicious
For the Cream cheese apple cinnamon
3 Firm baking apples ( I just used whatever I had at home)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
The recipe I found said to peel and core apples. I didn't peel mine so whatev. Place apples, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a saucepan over medium heat. Stirring constantly, until apples are soft. remove from heat put in the fridge to cool. Then use the same technique as the taco empanada's but I put cream cheese in the middle of the dough, and then added the apples. Then at the end do the egg wash, and I put a little cinnamon sugar on top. Baked for 12-15 mins. I think the recipe will make like 15 empanada's I just halfed it and made half taco, half apple.
