Empanadas Pies

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Butter for shortbread is pre-kept in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. We rub the cooled butter on a coarse grater and mix it with the sifted flour into a crumb, rubbing everything well with our hands. You can just chop the butter with a knife, but I like to grate it more.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour cold water and 9% vinegar into a separate bowl, add salt and beat the egg, Beat everything with a fork or whisk until smooth. Instead of the usual table vinegar, you can use apple cider vinegar or freshly squeezed lemon juice.

3. Step 3:

   

   Make a funnel in the butter-flour mass and pour the liquid mixture into it.

4. Step 4:

   

   We start kneading the dough with a spoon, and when the mass thickens and gathers into a lump, we shift it to the table. Knead the dough, assemble it into a ball, wrap it tightly with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. It can be longer, for example, for 1 hour - the shortbread dough will only benefit from this.

5. Step 5:

   

   While the dough is resting, we prepare the filling. Boil the egg hard-boiled for 10 minutes, cool in cold water, clean and cut into cubes. Green onions are washed and crushed. Onions are cleaned and finely chopped. Measure out the right amount of corn in a small bowl.

6. Step 6:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onion until transparent for 2 minutes over medium heat while stirring.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put the raw minced meat in a frying pan with onions, add salt and spices, fry everything together with stirring for 3-4 minutes. At this stage, taste the minced meat.

9. Step 8:

   

   We put the finished minced meat in a bowl, wait for it to cool down and mix it with the rest of the ingredients for the filling: corn, green onions and eggs.

10. Step 9:

    

    We roll out the dough into a layer of any shape with a thickness of 3-4 mm, flour will not be needed for podpyl. We cut out circles with a diameter of 11-12 cm . I used a salad ring of the right size. Remove the excess dough, roll it out again and cut out circles from it. I got 15 circles.

11. Step 10:

    

    Spread a tablespoon of filling on one side of the circle.

12. Step 11:

    

    Close with the second edge and pinch, forming a pie similar to a large dumpling. We pass the edges with a fork for better fixation and drawing.

13. Step 12:

    

    We put the blanks on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, and send everything to the freezer for 10 minutes. During this time, we make the rest of the pies.

14. Step 13:

    

    After the allotted time, remove the baking sheet from the refrigerator, grease the pies with beaten egg.

15. Step 14:

    

    We send the pies to the oven for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees to a ruddy color, and put the next batch in the freezer for this time. When these pies are baked, we bake the rest.