What Are Empanadas?

Series Summary

An empanada is a stuffed pastry dish served in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Philippines and the Caribbean. Empanadas are generally made by folding circular-shaped dough over the stuffing, which can be savory, such as seasoned meats and vegetables, or sweet, such as fruit. Empanada styles vary from country to country, but they're great for appetizers, parties, and make a great portable lunch.

In this series of free cooking videos you'll learn an easy recipe for making emapnadas. Expert Andrea Spano demonstrates how to make empanadas from scratch, including instructions on preparing a meat filling, rolling out and stuffing the dough, and frying empanadas. The recipe is simple and can be easily modified to any filling you want.

Video Transcript

"Hi on behalf of Expert Village my name is Andrea Spano and I'm going to be showing you how to make empandas from my new book Not Just Desserts. Today I'm going to show you how to make empandas, empandas come from the Spanish verb empanda means bread or to bake pastry. Now we can add either fruit, you can make a fruit filled pastry pockets or savory ones the ones we are going to do today are going to be the savory type which means we are going to be putting in saute meats and adding all of our vegetables into it. It's typically a receipt that the Cuban community likes to put into there empandas and they are simply out of this world and not hard to make. "