This past week, I have been nosing around the challenges on The Daring Kitchen and quite a few on there have caught my eye, making my baking fingers itch.
Tonight I decided to try my hand on a Daring Bakers Challenge from September 2012 : the Empanada Gallega.
[Although this is posted way after the closing challenge date, I am still adding the blogchecking lines to this post should someone do a google search on them.]
Patri of the blog, Asi Son Los Cosas, was our September 2012 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she decided to tempt us with one of her family’s favorite recipes for Empanadas! We were given two dough recipes to choose from and encouraged to fill our Empanadas as creatively as we wished!
I have made empanadas before (with various stuffings), but up to now I have only used ready made doughs. To make it more of a challenge, I wanted to make them from scratch this time and I used the recipe for wheat dough from the September 2012 Challenge Page.
My personal tuna stuffing is fairly similar to the one suggested by Patri. I only reduced the amount of oil by 1/4 cup and tweaked the ingredients a bit.
For my tuna stuffing I used :* 1 large red onion, diced* 2 sweet red ramiro peppers, diced* 3 garlic cloves* 2 hard boiled eggs* 200g of tomato frito
* 1 Tbsp olive slices (leftover from Friday's pizza making)* seasoning of salt, pepper and nutmeg
I had some issues with overstuffing some of my empanadas (making them burst while baking), but overall they came out rather nice. If next time I remember to prick the dough, before putting them in the oven, they will even be better :o)
Dared to bake Empanada de atun. Challenge completed !
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