Empanadas with chicken and mushrooms in the oven

Empanada is a traditional dish that is prepared on the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America. Usually empanadas are prepared from wheat flour and beef fat. Empanada is eaten with hands, washed down with dry red wine. Like most dishes, they are prepared differently in each region. The main role is played by the filling: potatoes, peas, raisins, olives, chicken, vegetables, lamb, shrimp, hare, hard cheese, ham, spinach and other variety of products.

Today, together with Smakota (Smakotainfo.com), we will prepare a version adapted to our conditions empanadas with chicken and mushrooms.

Empanadas with chicken and mushrooms – ingredients

• For the dough
• Flour – 500 g.
• Butter – 250 g (hard, cold).
• Salt – ½ tsp.
• Ice water – 3-4 tbsp.
• For the filling:
• Minced chicken – 400 g.
• Mushrooms – 200 g.
• Onion – 1 piece of medium size.
• Fresh thyme – 2-3 sprigs (you can take dried – 1/3 tsp).
• Parsley – 5-6 sprigs.
• Garlic – 2-3 cloves.
• Breadcrumbs – 1 tbsp.
• Semi-hard cheese – 50 g.
• Salt pepper.

Put flour, salt, sugar and cubed butter in a blender bowl. Twist until small crumbs are obtained.

Quickly remove the mass from the blender, add water and knead the dough very quickly. We form a ball from the dough, wrap it in cling film and send it to the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.

While the dough is resting, let’s do the filling. Finely chop the onion, cut the mushrooms into slices. Pour quite a bit of oil into the pan, add onions and fry on medium heat for 2-3 minutes, add mushrooms and fry for another 4-5 minutes. Remove from the fire.

Put the minced chicken on another heated pan with a spoonful of oil. Fry, constantly separating with a spatula, until the entire minced meat acquires a uniform matte (gray) color (it will not be pink at all).

Transfer the minced meat to a bowl with onions and mushrooms. Add breadcrumbs, grated garlic, coarsely grated cheese, torn thyme leaves (or dry), as well as finely chopped parsley. We mix.

Take the dough out of the refrigerator, roll it out to a thickness of 3-5 mm and cut out circles (diameter 11-12 cm). We put the filling on each circle. We pinch the edges.

Place the patties on a baking sheet and brush them with a beaten egg. We send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake it until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

The empanadas are ready. Bon appetit!