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- From uuneo!sugar!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!taronga!arielle Thu Nov 04 07:38:39 CST 1993
- Article: 6515 of rec.food.recipes
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- From: tak@bushrat.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg)
- Subject: Spinach Empanadas
- Message-ID: <2b63ub$qt3@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Keywords: Appetizer
- Sender: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Reply-To: tak@bushrat.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg)
- Organization: JPL
- Date: 2 Nov 1993 17:04:11 GMT
- Approved: arielle@taronga.com
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- A very tasty pastry:
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- SPINACH EMPANADAS
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- Pastry
- 2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
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- Filling
- 1/4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1 tbs bacon drippings
- 1 10-ounce package frozen spinach, thawed and drained
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
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- 1 egg, beaten
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- In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter till smooth.
- (Use a stand mixer, since the mixture is heavy.) Gradually add in the
- flour and salt. Lightly knead the dough by hand. Cover with plastic
- wrap and refrigerate for 3 hours.
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- In a medium skillet, cook the onion and garlic in the bacon drippings
- until the onion is tender but not brown. Mix in the bacon, spinach,
- cottage cheese, pepper, and nutmeg; let the mixture cool.
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- Preheat the oven to 450 F. Roll out the pastry on a floured surface
- to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Cut 3-inch circles in the pastry, place
- 1 teaspoon of the filling in each circle, just to one side of the
- center. Moisten the edge of the circle with the egg, fold the dough
- in half over the filling to make a semicircular empanada. Seal the
- edges with fork tines, and poke the top of each pastry with a fork
- to make a vent. Put the empanadas on an ungreased cookie sheet, brush
- their tops with egg, and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden.
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- Makes 60 empanadas.
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