Chicken Empanada

Delicious little chicken empanadas with homemade flavor, impress your family and prepare something different so they always come home hungry.
Ingredients
12
Servings
  • 500 grams flour
  • 250 grams margarine, or butter
  • 150 milliliters water
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 50 grams sugar
  • 5 grams salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1 chicken breast
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tablespoon yellow ají
  • 1 pinch chicken seasoning
  • salt, and pepper to taste
  • 1 egg, hard
  • 1 egg, beaten egg for painting the empanadas
Preparation
1h 30 mins
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  • Poach the chicken breast and set aside. In a pan, fry the onion and yellow chili with the seasoning, add the poached chicken cut into pieces or shredded along with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
  • In a bowl, pour the flour and make a hole, pour in the margarine or butter which should be very cold and mix it with the flour using a fork until a mixture similar to oatmeal forms.
  • Mix the water with the sugar, salt, egg yolk, and vanilla, and pour it into the previous flour mixture. Knead until a homogeneous dough forms. Refrigerate for a minimum of 15 minutes.
  • Form the empanadas, fill with chicken and hard-boiled egg. Pinch the edges and place on a previously greased baking tray.
  • With a brush, paint the empanadas with the beaten egg and place in the oven for approximately 30 minutes at 180ºC.

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