Vegetable empanadas

Vegetable empanadas

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Discover these delicious empanadas, filled with vegetables and tuna, perfect for a quick and nutritious meal.

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These empanadas are ideal for a quick and healthy dinner. They are filled with vegetables and tuna, and can be baked or fried.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time25 min
  • Resting10 min
  • Total1 hr 5 min
  • DifficultyMedium
  • Cooking methodfour

Ingredients

6 people
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Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to a high temperature, with both the top and bottom heating elements turned on.
  2. Heat a pan with a little olive oil.
  3. Chop the vegetables into small pieces and add them to the pan.
  4. Let it simmer, and when the vegetables are tender, we add the spices, salt, and mix everything together.
  5. Add the natural tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, and mix well. ≈ 3 min
  6. Let it rest for a few more minutes so that all the ingredients can fully combine.
  7. Next, we add the tuna. ≈ 3 min
  8. We fill the empanadas: we place the mixture in the center of the dough, and using a brush, we moisten the edges with milk, fold the dough, seal it tightly, and then use a fork to seal the edges and moisten them with milk. ≈ 3 min
  9. We bake them in the oven until they are golden brown and ready to eat.
  10. We can fry them, but personally, I prefer to bake them.
  11. The ingredients are: pepper, olive oil, onion, sugar, maize starch, and salt, as well as the main ingredients: tomato, tuna, and hard-boiled eggs. ≈ 3 min
  12. For the dough, we can use pre-made cookies. ≈ 3 min

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 9 mushrooms
  • 5 hard-boiled eggs
  • Half an onion
  • Half a zucchini
  • 9 cherry tomatoes
  • pureed natural tomato
  • Stuffed tomatoes
  • 2 cans of tuna, small size
  • 1/2 teaspoon of ground garlic (Allium sativum) (optional)
  • 1 pinch of paprika (optional) salt
  • olive oil
  • A small amount of milk

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