Empanadas Colombianas

Directions

  1. 1Season the meat with salt and pepper.
  2. 2Sear the meat in a skillet with oil over high heat, then transfer to a pressure cooker.
  3. 3Add long green onion, bay leaf, garlic, salt, and water to the pressure cooker.
  4. 4Dice the purple onion, red bell pepper, long green onion stalks, ripe tomatoes, and garlic cloves.
  5. 5Sauté the diced vegetables in a pan and season with paprika, cumin, tomato paste, mustard, salt, and pepper.
  6. 6Shred the meat while it's hot.
  7. 7Add broth to the sautéed vegetables.
  8. 8Leave only the broth in the pressure cooker, add potatoes, and cook until tender.
  9. 9Mash the cooked potatoes with the peels on.
  10. 10Add the shredded meat and mashed potatoes to the sautéed vegetables and mix well.
  11. 11Let the filling cool.
  12. 12Mix beef broth, achiote oil, corn flour, lime juice, cornstarch and salt
  13. 13Grease hands and a plastic bag with oil.
  14. 14Place a ball of dough in the bag and flatten it.
  15. 15Add the filling, close the dough, and cut it with a cup or any tool.
  16. 16Fry in hot oil until golden brown.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg beef flank or brisket
  • salt
  • pepper
  • long green onions
  • bay laurel
  • garlic
  • salt
  • water
  • 1 purple onion
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 2 long green onion stalks
  • 2 ripe tomatoes
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • paprika
  • cumin
  • tomato paste
  • mustard
  • salt
  • pepper
  • potatoes
  • beef broth
  • 2 tazas beef broth
  • achiote oil
  • 2 tazas corn flour
  • lime juice
  • 1 cda cornstarch
  • 0.5 cdta salt
  • oil for frying

Equipment

pressure cookerpanknifecutting board

Tips

  • Desmenucha la carne mientras está caliente (Shred the meat while it's hot).
  • Deja que el relleno se enfríe para que no se abran las empanadas (Let the filling cool so the empanadas don't open).