Quick and Easy Empanadas

From: Chef #1152231

On Jan 31, 2009

My 8yr old daughter and I made this recipe for her class during their study of Mexico. We found the mixture very easy to put together and tasty too. Instead of using the biscuits we found out that our grocery store makes empanada dough already cut out and flattened into shape ready to take the filling. This must have made all the difference because our dough came together very easy. The overall review from the class full of 8 year olds was great! They loved it! Will definately add this to our family recipie box.

From: AmyMCGS

On May 9, 2008

Good and easy. My 5 year-old and husband both liked them, and my 1 year-old enjoyed the filling eaten with a spoon.

From: CWatson

On Aug 20, 2005

These were great! They were quick and easy to make and yet tasted good when reheated. You do have to crimp them very well or the bisuit dough separates when baking.

From: Heaven's Kitchen

On Sep 18, 2008

This was one of my worst cooking disasters ever! To be fair, others have given good reviews, so maybe this would have worked out better if I'd used different brands of ingredients. I don't know. The large biscuit dough I used was definitely not large enough to hold anywhere near 1/3 cup of filling, so what I ended up with was more like little appetizers rather than something you'd serve as a meal. The salsa made the mix too watery and it kept leaking out, so I'd recommend draining the salsa first, or perhaps adding it to the meat in the pan and letting the excess water/juice evaporate before trying to fill the dough. And perhaps it was the brand of biscuit dough that I used, but I found it incredibly difficult to work with. It was so oily that I had a very hard time getting the edges to stay sealed. Even when I crimped them with a fork, they just kept opening right back up. The filling itself was good, and I think I might like this made using bread dough. I think if I'd made some bread dough in my bread machine and used that instead of the biscuit dough, this might have turned out much better (and healthier, too). I had doubled the recipe, thinking that I was going to get to put some of these up for later, but this was so much trouble that I ended up stopping halfway through and freezing the rest of the mix to use in a Tex-Mex casserole or something. Maybe I'll make the bread dough and use the filling for that. I definitely won't be tyring this again with biscuit dough!