Which countries eat empanadas

One common recipe uses the simple ingredients of white cheese and black beans. It includes shredded beef, black beans, peppers and fried sweet plantains.

Colombia — The wide range of Colombian empanada recipes generally contain some combination of beef, chicken, pork, onions, peppers, potatoes, cheese, egg, and peas.

The common thread is that they are typically corn flour based, fried to crispy brown perfection, and served with spicy aji pepper sauce onions, cilantro, lime, vinegar.

Also famous for their dessert empanadas, a few classics include rice pudding empanadas empanadas de arroz con leche and guava paste and cheese empanadas empanadas de bocadillo con queso. Belize — Known to Belizeans as panades, these corn dough empanadas are usually fried and filled with red or black beans, chicken, or fish and served with onion, pepper, and cabbage salsa. Coconut shrimp curry is a flavorful favorite combination.

Belizean panades are typically lighter, though no less tasty! Ecuador — Empanadas de verde are a specialty along the Ecuadorian coastal regions.

A post shared by My Colombian Recipes mycolombianrecipes. Empanadas are very traditional in Colombia, and many Colombians take a lot of pride in their family recipes. Though dough is made with masarepa corn dough and fillings are made super-savory with onion, garlic and bell pepper.

A post shared by The Salvi Vegan thesalvivegan. Get this…the crust is made with sweet plantains. Does that not sound amazing? They can be filled with mashed beans and cream and are typically dusted with sugar after being fried. A post shared by Paulina Cocina — Recetas y eso paulinacocina. Argentinian empanadas are truly a sight to behold and a signature dish throuhgout the country with various fillings and baked or fried.

They are made with an enriched dough that has egg and milk in it, so they have a beautiful sheen and color to them. A beef, olive, egg filling is the most common, and the empanadas are baked and served with a classic Argentinian chimichurri herb sauce. Empanadas are certainly not the first dish that comes to mind when most people think of Mexican food, but the country does have its own version. Although empanadas made with a pastry dough can be found in Mexico, there are also those made with a corn-based masa.

The empanadas we enjoy today are thought to have originated in Galicia, Spain. The idea of wrapping a hardy filling in pastry dough may well have stemmed from the Moors who occupied Spain for hundreds of years.

A cookbook published in Catalan, Spain in includes empanadas made with seafood. The first empanadas in Western Hemisphere are credited to Argentina. The U. Empanadas are a traditional Christmas treat in New Mexico. They're commonly referred to as creoles in the southwest and the south, and as fried pies in the southeast. Cubans fill their empanadas with seasoned ground beef or chicken before frying them. They're prepared and eaten the same way in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

Empanadas are similar to cut-up pies and they're typically filled with cod fish or chicken. An empanada is made by folding a disc of thinly rolled dough over the filling into a semicircle, then crimping the edges to seal it. The dough is often made with wheat flour, but this isn't universal. Corn flour or cornmeal can be used as well, and some countries' traditions call for a plantain or potato base. The exact content of the dough can depend on whether the empanadas will be baked or fried.

It's said that the art of making a perfect empanada is to hold the dough, spread open, in one hand, while using the other hand to fill it and to crimp the edges.