# Empanadas Colombianas

This recipe teaches you how to make Colombian empanadas filled with meat and potatoes.

- Servings: 16 servings
- Cuisine: Other
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## 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

## Instructions

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

## Equipment

- pressure cooker
- pan
- knife
- cutting 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).

## Source

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- Extracted: 2025-06-18

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