VEGETABLE EMPANADA (EMPANADA DE VERDURAS)

                      


     INGREDIENTS:

     For the pastry:

       350g of flour
       150g of olive oil (or another vegetable oil)
       150g of water
       1 teaspoon of salt
       *Optional (but I love it!) : 1 tablespoon of Pimentón dulce

   There is so many different recipes of pastries that you can use in this recipe. This is the one that I´m using now, but I wanted you to know that you can find lots of them!

   Stuffing:

    You can made it with any vegetable you can imagine, but I really recommend to use always onion (so much onion indeed) and pepper to get the typical flavour of a good empanada and chopped tomatoes for the succulence.

  For this one I used:

     1 tin of chopped tomatoes

     1 pepper

     1 courgette

     1/2 aubergine (if you have an entire one use it all!)

     1 and 1/2 onion (medium size)

     2 leeks (just white part of them)

     

    

  METHOD:

    Chop all the ingredients and poach them. I used 2 tablespoons of olive oil and added the salt in this step.

                           

    Add the tin of chopped tomatoes and cook everythin together until reduce the water.

   The stuffing must be cold before using it, so now, we can start with the dough.

  Now mix all the ingredients for the dough and knead them well. Divide the dough in two parts (one for the base and one for the top). Follow the process in the pictures:

 Poke the dough with a fork and make a hole in the middle of the top

 You can decorate it, this is a very typical decoration for the empanada in Galicia

Bake it for between 15 and 30 minutes (you can check it if you need) and it is done!

With this recipe you can also make empanadillas. You can bake or fry them, it is up to you, in both ways they are delicious!