Empanadas... Cuban Night

A few weeks ago I helped my friend make dinner. We made a bunch of Cuban food. Emapanadas, Black beans, and yellow rice. So I thought I would try making them for my family. I made Emapandas with black beans, tortilla chips and salsa. I was real good. Here is the recipes and pictures.                                                                                                    
The Dough... Fried

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
4 tablespoons lard
2 tablespoons butter
1 whole egg PLUS 1 egg yolk
1/2 cups cold water
(Plus or minus to bring dough to proper consistency)

Sift the flour with salt, baking powder and sugar. Place half of the flour in a large mixing bowl. Make a well in the center. Place the butter, lard, eggs, and water in the well. Mix together by hand to from a paste. Continue to add more flour until all of the flour is added. You may need to add water -- slowly and in small quantities until the dough reaches the right consistency. The dough needs to be soft and pliable, like pie dough. Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a clean, damp dish towel, and let stand for 30 minutes at room temperature. Makes 14-18 empanadas.

Sift the flour with salt, baking powder and sugar. Place half of the flour in a large mixing bowl. Make a well in the center. Place the butter, lard, eggs, and water in the well. Mix together by hand to from a paste. Continue to add more flour until all of the flour is added. You may need to add water -- slowly and in small quantities until the dough reaches the right consistency. The dough needs to be soft and pliable, like pie dough. Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a clean, damp dish towel, and let stand for 30 minutes at room temperature. Makes 14-18 empanadas.

 For the filling, I dont have a recipe. You can actually put anything you want in them, but this is what i put in mine. 


All i did was first chop an onion very fine. Then chop olives very fine as well, you can use either green or black olives. Put thosein a pan with butter. Lightly saute. Then add some rasins, after you have added the rasins, go ahead and through in your meat choice. I put in ground beef. Then cook until meat is cooked thoroughly. Your filling is done.

Get your dough out and roll and roll with your rolling pin. Cut out medium size circles of dough. Then fill them and make sure clamp them with a fork to get them very well sealed. You dont want them to come open in the fryer. Once your oil in your deep fryer is hot. Put them in the fryer, until golden brown. Then they will be ready to eat!!! Enjoy!