Beef-Filled Turnovers

Empanadas de Carne

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Preparation info
  • Thirty-two

    5 inch semicircular turnovers
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

Ana Rambaldi is one of the most gifted home cooks and bakers I know. She often stays up half the night preparing her specialties, such as these empanadas from her native Argentina. All but one of the ingredients are easy to find wherever you shop. The filling is flavored with an Argentine type of crushed red pepper that is not hot, called aji molido, or ground pepper. Ana says you can substitute sweet Spanish paprika, but the taste will not be exactly the same. In typical S