Chicken Empanada Recipe
If you are looking for chicken empanada recipes, stop here right now! Get ready to get your hands dirty, as you are going to learn how to create your own empanada dough and filling for the best chicken empanadas ever!
Ingredients
- 400 g chicken
- 300 g flour
- 80 g butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 2 bay leaves
- salt, pepper
- chilli
Instructions
- As with all chicken empanadas recipes, this one also starts with making the dough. Mix 350 g flour with 60 g melted butter, two drops of olive oil, and salt. Once done, put the dough in the freezer for about 40 minutes.
- In the meantime, chop all the veggies into small pieces, and cook them together in a pan. At this point, you can add the chili as well if you would like to.
- In a separate bowl, cook the chicken in broth until tender. Add the bay leaf to the chicken.
- Once the chicken is done, use two forks to tear the meat apart into small pieces.
- Cook the 3 eggs, clean them, and cut them into small cubes.
- Mix the chicken with the eggs and chopped vegetables.
- Take the dough out of the freezer and start to stretch it. Once you stretch the dough, try to cut circles of the size of a smoothie bowl. You can actually use one to do so.
- Put one tbsp of filling in each circle.
- Fold the dough in two. Use egg white to make the sides stick together. You can also press it together as hard as you can, so it won't open while in the oven.
- To make your empanadas look even more nice, you can start and fold the sides piece by piece. Do not forget to cover the top of empanadas with egg yolk.
- Place them side by side on a tray that is covered with baking paper. In a preheated oven bake them at 200 degrees for about 15-20 minutes.