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Chicken And Chorizo Empanadas

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Chicken and chorizo empanadas with home-made dough and an A-MA-ZING red onion salsa. And psst, there's even cheese inside!

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Chicken and chorizo empanadas
Veronique van Ohmydish

Made by Véronique

Published at 2016-09-17, this recipe is for 5 people and takes 1 hours 30 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (established 2014). Would happily spend her entire day in the kitchen. Previously worked in the hospitality industry as an independent chef and is ready and willing to help you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, helpful tips, and cooking knowledge, you will be making the very tastiest dishes yourself in no time! Véronique's recipes are intended for everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 20-04-2023

1 hours 30 minutes 5 people Main course
Chicken and chorizo empanadas

Ingredients

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  • 380 gram all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 170 gram butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 75 ml water
  • 1 large chicken fillet
  • 100 gram chorizo
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1 red chili pepper
  • 4 red onions
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 100 gram grated cheese
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 125 ml white wine vinegar
  • pepper and salt to taste
Chicken and chorizo empanadas ingredients
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Kitchen equipment

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  • standmixer or knead the dough by hand
  • cling film
  • cutting board & chef's knife
  • medium-sized bowl
  • small saucepan
  • large skillet
  • rolling-pin
  • oven
  • oventray lined with parchment paper
  • round cookie cutter (10 cm - 3,9 inch)
  • empanadas maker or use a fork
  • silicone kitchen brush


Chicken And Chorizo Empanadas

1 hours 30 minutes 5 people Main course

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Preparation -- 1 hour

Start with the dough for the empanadas. Combine flour and salt, you can use an electric mixer or knead the dough by hand. Cut the butter into cubes and add them one by one to the flour until the dough looked crumbled.

Add 1 egg and gradually pour in the water until it forms a dough ball. Wrap the dough ball with cling film and refrigerate for half an hour. Meanwhile prepare the filling and red onion salsa.

Peel and finely chop the red onions and place them in a medium-sized bowl.  peel and finely chop the garlic cloves. Add half of the chopped garlic with the red onions and set the other half aside.

Remove the seeds of the red pepper and chop it into fine cubes. Chop up the chorizo into small pieces, if they're too large the empanadas won't close well. Remove any excess fat or muscle from the chicken fillets and also chop them up into small pieces.

Add the white wine vinegar along with 1 tablespoon sugar to a small saucepan and heat it up until the sugar has dissolved completely. Let it cool off slightly and meanwhile remove the seeds from the red chili pepper and chop it up as fine as you can.

Mix the chopped red onion, garlic, red chili pepper and white wine vinegar. Heat olive oil in a large skillet and sauté the rest of the chopped garlic for a minute, then add the chicken pieces and sauté another minute.

Add red pepper and chorizo pieces and cook until the chicken is fully cooked. Season with pepper and salt and let the filling cool off completely.  

Chicken and chorizo empanadas
Chicken and chorizo empanadas

Finishing the chicken and chorizo empanadas -- 30 minutes

Dust your work surface and rolling-pin with flour. Knead the dough shortly and then roll out the dough. Cut the dough into circles with a diameter of about 10 cm (3,9 inch), you can use a cookie cutter to do this.

We used an empanadas maker, but you can also simply place some of the filling on one side of the circle, add some grated cheese on top and close it using a bit of water and a fork.

Neatly fold the edges inwards if you like and place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Repeat until all the filling and dough is being used and meanwhile pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees celsius or 375 degrees fahrenheit.

Folded empanadas
Folded empanadas

Beat the second egg and use a silicone kitchen brush to coat the top of the empanadas. Bake the empanadas in the oven for about 20 minutes, depending on their size and your oven.

Serve them hot with the red onion salsa and enjoy!


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