Easiest Way to Make Breakfast Empanadas in 17 Minutes for Beginners

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, breakfast empanadas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Breakfast Empanadas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Breakfast Empanadas is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Breakfast empanadas don't have to be filled with bacon and eggs. Traditional fillings like chicken and beef are also delicious, or you can make vegetarian empanadas with beans. Latin American Breakfast Eggs Chorizo Latin America & Caribbean Spanish Argentina Cilantro Scallions Brunch Pastry Dough Empanadas Medium.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook breakfast empanadas using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Breakfast Empanadas:

1. Take 8 eggs
2. Prepare Half a leek stock finely chopped
3. Take 1 shallot finely chopped
4. Take 1/4 lb. Smoked ham diced
5. Make ready 1 can green chilies
6. Make ready Favorite hand pie dough

Transfer empanadas to paper towels to drain. Serve with salsa and sour cream, if desired. Easy step by step instructions on how to make a breakfast empanada. Empanada dough has only a quarter of the fat and half the calories of buttery breads, plus it's way Brush the egg wash over the tops of the empanadas.

Instructions to make Breakfast Empanadas:

1. Heat skillet to medium low and soften the leeks and shallots.
2. Add the ham and green chilies. I used leftover spiral ham that I smoked earlier this year.
3. Roll dough out to quarter inch thick and cut into 12 six inch rounds.
4. Crack and whisk eggs. Add to the skillet once the ham is warm.
5. Stir continuously. The goal here is to have super creamy and slightly undercooked scrambled eggs.
6. Move the mixture to the bowl the eggs were mixed in. Wipe the skillet with a paper towel and start heating about a quarter inch of oil. I used peanut oil because it's delicious but canola oil works super good too - used before and it's my 'every day' oil.
7. Load the rounds with the filling, fold and crimp the seam. Cut slits into the top surface for steam to escape.
8. Put the empanadas in the skillet slit side up, don't over crowd. Once the bottom is golden flip and when otherside is golden remove.
9. Put on a baking sheet in oven on warm until all are done.
10. Eat some right away and freeze the rest. These are super awesome premade breakfasts for camping. Reheat in a cast iron on the campfire and crush it with some coffee and go hit the trail! With salty from the ham and creamy from the constantly stirred eggs you won't miss cheese in here, but can totally be added. A queso fresco would be great.

Grab these tasty empanadas stuffed with eggs, cheese and salsa. It made the outside of the empanada crisp, flaky, and delicious. And the perfect contrast to the soft melted mixture inside. And you have delicious ham and cheese breakfast empanadas for all! An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Southern European, Latin American, Indonesian, and the Philippines cultures.

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