Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tasty pumpkin empanadas (an authentic mexican pastry). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Fat little Mexican-style pastries stuffed with sweet pumpkin filling make a great snack or a take-along breakfast. Since moving from CA to the midwest we miss our local mexican bakery and have been trying to find a recipe that is similiar to the pumpkin empanadas we would order by the dozen. Try this Pumpkin Empanada recipe this fall.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tasty pumpkin empanadas (an authentic mexican pastry) using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tasty Pumpkin Empanadas (An Authentic Mexican Pastry):
- Get Pumpkin Filling
- Get 4 tbsp butter
- Take 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Get 15 oz canned pumpkin (not pie filling, I use one Libby's brand 15oz can)
- Prepare 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- Prepare Empanada Dough
- Prepare 3 cup all purpose flour
- Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- Prepare 2 large eggs
- Take 1/2 cup whole milk
- Take 2 tbsp white sugar
- Prepare Sugar/Cinnamon Topping
- Prepare 1/4 cup white sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Stir real well to dissolve real good. Pumpkin empanadas are often served at Mexican-American Thanksgiving celebrations as well as for their Christmas feast. After watching a couple videos on one of the most common ways to repulgue an empanada, we tried our hands at it. It took a few tries, but.
Steps to make Tasty Pumpkin Empanadas (An Authentic Mexican Pastry):
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Don't let it burn.
- Stir in brown sugar until it dissolves with the butter.
- Stir in the pumpkin and the spices. Continue to stir over medium heat for 10min.
- Remove the filling from heat and let cool down. After it has cooled for 15 min, put the filling in the refrigerator for 30 min before use.
- Mix the flour, baking powder and salt
- Cut in the shortening with the dry ingredients, I use my hands to work the shortening into the flour mixture.
- Add the eggs, milk and sugar, use a spoon at first then continue to work the dough with your hands until all ingredients all fully incorporated and you have a nice ball of dough.
- Split the dough in half, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and put into the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350° f
- Take out half of the dough and split into 12-16 balls of dough (depending on how big you want the empanadas)
- Using a floured rolling pin, roll each of the dough balls into small round circles about 4-6 inches in diameter.
- Add a small dollop of pumpkin filling to center of dough.
- Wet the edge of the dough circle with water and fold the dough over to seal the empanada in half. Seal the edges by using a fork to press into the edge.
- Brush the top of each empanada with egg whites, then sprinkle the tops with the sugar/cinnamon topping.
- Place the empanadas on a greased cookie sheet and pierce each empanada with a fork to allow steam to escape during cooking.
- Cook empanadas for 18 minutes on middle rack in oven. If the tops aren't golden brown, you can switch the oven to broil and cook for a few more minutes until the tops are golden (make sure you don't burn em!)
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