Beef Empanadas With Olives Easy Puff Pastry Ground Beef Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onion and garlic in the hot oil until soft, about 5 minutes. Add ground beef, paprika, salt, and pepper; cook and stir until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer mixture to a mixing bowl.
• Mix hard-boiled eggs, olives, raisins, and parsley into the meat mixture.
• Using a spoon or your fingers, take a little of the ground beef mixture and place it in the middle of the dough discs. Fold the disc over and crimp the edges on both sides with the fork, leaving an indentation in the dough. Coat the outsides of the empanadas with egg yolk using a brush and place on a flat baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the shells are somewhat browned, 24 to 28 minutes. Let cool for at least 15 minutes before enjoying.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Heat the oil in a heavy saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the ground beef chuck and cook until browned, about 7 minutes. Season with the salt and pepper. Add the olives, raisins, carrots and onions and saute for just a couple minutes until softened. Add the tomato puree and simmer for 10 minutes. Turn the heat off and cool to room temperature before filling the empanadas.
• Grease a large baking sheet with some nonstick cooking spray. Unfold one sheet of puff pastry onto a lightly floured surface. Using a floured rolling pin, roll the pastry out to a 1/4- to 1/8-inch thickness. With a knife, cut out 4 equal squares measuring 4 1/2-by-5 1/2-inches. Add 2 tablespoons of the cooled beef mixture to the center of the square. Brush the edge of each square with some egg wash and fold to shape into triangles. Crimp the edges with a fork. Transfer the empanadas to the prepared baking sheet and brush them with the remaining egg wash. Bake until golden brown, about 25 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat olive oit in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; stir 2 minutes. crumble ground beef into skillet. Brown beef, stirring to break up meat. Add oives, raisinsm etchup, parsley and cumin; cook and stir another 2 mins. Unflod puff pastry sheet on cutting board. Cut into quarters; the cut each quarter diagonally to form 8 triangles. Divid beef mixture evenly onto each triangle. Brush edges with water; fold each in half. Press edges together and seal with fork tines. Place triangles on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush beaten egg yolk over triangles. Bake 15-20 minutes. Serve while hot.