Chilean "empanadas" step by step

In Chile, the most traditional empanada filling is called "pino". Our students prepared this recipe following Sole's instructions. Here you are the ingredients and the process, step by step.

Ingredients:

·         500 g flour

·         2 large onions

·         300 g ground beef

·         125 g butter

·         2 teaspoons cumin

·         1 teaspoon chile powder

·         1 tablespoon paprika

·         1/4 l hot water

·         1/2 cup raisins

·         1/2 cup chopped olives

·         2 hard boiled eggs, sliced

·         1 egg yolk

Preparation:

We peel the onions

and we chop them.

We cook them in vegetable oil until they are softened.

Then we add the beef, cumin, chile powder and paprika.

We cook the beef, stirring and crumbling the meat, until browned.

We prepare the dough with the flour, hot water and butter.

We roll the dough into a circle and add 1 tablespoon of the beef filling, a few raisins and some chopped olives, and a slice of hard boiled egg to the middle of the circle. 

We seal the edges by pressing down with our fingers.

We shape the "empanadas" and paint them with egg yolk.

And we bake them at 180ºC for 40 minutes.

They look delicious!!!

And, of course, we clean the kitchen at the end of the lesson. Elio, Javi, Marina, Jorge and Emilio volunteered ;)