There is so many to choose from, but here is one of my favorites:
Meat Empanadas, I’m not very good at writing recipes down, My family always cooked together and learned how to make them from watching and doing and nothing was ever measured, so this is as close as I can come to writing it down from memory as I pretend to make it so I can get all the ingredients right.
ingredients:
1 large beef roast
1 large onion diced
1 med size box of raisins
1 doz eggs boiled and peeled
1 med can chopped chilies or ( 4 roasted and peeled anaheim peppers)
1 can black olives drained ( you can cut them in half)
1. cook beef roast in crock pot with broth to cover til done, drain
2. shred roast add diced onion, raisins, black olives, chopped chilies ( I like roasted and peeled anaheim peppers), boiled eggs mix well set aside.
Now for the fun part:
making the tortillas
3 cups flour
1 cup crisco shortening
1 tablespoon baking powder
a pinch of salt
1. sift flour, baking powder into a large bowl add pinch of salt chop the shortening into cubes blend in with the flour. ( I work it bare handed, was not taught any other way.)
a dough will form.
pinch off a silver dollar ball from the dough and roll with a rolling pin to the size of a medium size plate not to thin. do that til you run out of dough.
In a large skillet get some oil hot for frying or a deep fryer, while you wait for the oil to come to temp.
add a couple of tablespoons of filling to the tortilla in the middle of it, fold over the other side crimp the edges together with a fork. put a couple of them in the hot oil fry until golden brown drain on paper towels..
ENJOY
It’s a lot of work but growing up we didn’t mind as we were cooking with Nana and making tortillas which was us kids loved to do.
