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White Sonora Chicken Curry Empanadas
This recipe is a fusion of Argentinian empanadas and Jamaican chicken curry patties. Both are savory pie-crust pockets, usually filled with meat, and in the same family as Cornish pasties and many other baked or fried pockets of deliciousness.
I initially learned to make traditional Argentinian beef empanadas so I wouldn’t have to wait until I was visiting my mom’s family in Buenos Aires to eat them. I added Jamaican chicken curry filled empanadas to my repertoire because my kids clamored for them. They love the chicken patties we buy from Caribbean-American restaurants.
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I make the dough myself, so that I can use as much whole grain flour as I want, the type of wheat I prefer, and I can avoid hydrogenated oils that are in the grocery store frozen “discos.” What exactly is interesterified soybean and/or palm oil?
For the dough in this recipe, I chose a mix of all purpose flour and whole grain White Sonora wheat berries milled in my Mockmill. White Sonora wheat has a delicious, almost creamy flavor and nice stretchability for rolling. Using only whole grain White Sonora flour or bolted White Sonora flour are also great options.
I built off an empanada dough recipe from Epicurious and a chicken patty recipe of Immaculate Bites, varying the ingredients and techniques. If you want to make the traditional Argentinian filling of ground beef, peppers, paprika, raisins, green olives…etc., I suggest this Bon Appetit recipe, but reduce the ingredients by 1/3 (1.5 lbs of meat become 1 lbs of meat). My recipe makes 24 empanadas, and the Bon Appetit filling is for 36.
The dough and filling can be made ahead and refrigerated a day or two. You can also freeze uncooked empanadas on a flat surface and then bag them for future baking. In my experience, a person can eat 3-4 empanadas when they are the main course.
I found that my skill at rolling, filling and sealing the pockets improved significantly over several batches. Below is a video of how to to crimp the edges of an empanada. You can also use the tines of a fork.
Chicken Curry Empanadas
Enjoy this combination of Argentinian empanadas and Jamaican chicken patties for any meal, paired with a salad or by themselves. The whole grain White Sonora wheat makes a uniquely delicious crust, and the curry chicken filling is mouthwateringly flavorful.
Ingredients
Dough
Filling
Instructions
See Photo Galleries for images of all three instruction sets. Also the video at the beginning of the blog shows how to crimp the dough edges.
Dough
Filling
Assembly
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White Sonora Chicken Curry Empanadas