Fred Empanadas:
Although there are other ways to prepare empanadas, my preferred technique involves making a wheat flour paste that is then fried in oil or lard. Low in fat? No. However, if you want to prepare hearty snacks or appetizers, you should learn how to make fried empanadas. How? Read on. Understanding how to produce a decent empanada dough for frying is the key to making fried empanadas. It differs significantly from baked pastries like impanadas and masa empanadas, which always use corn massa as the only ingredient in the dough. Many request that you The recipes call for rolling out the dough and using a tool to cut it into circles to create empanadas, but I think that's lavish and actually more difficult than simply creating dough and measuring it out.
ingredients:
- 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 ¼ cups water, or as needed